Yearly Archives: 2017

The Khaadi company in Pakistan is one of the country’s largest textile and garment brands and owns many factories. There is an escalating campaign by both workers and labour activists against the company’s treatment of its workers and the repression of union activists. Most of its workforce is employed by […]

The brutal war that has been waged by both the internal ruling elites and external imperialist powers is continuing to have a devastating effect on working class communities in Yemen. This war was a response to the working class uprisings that began in Yemen in 2011.  Millions of people in […]

Hundreds of workers in the onshore and offshore oil and gas sector in south eastern Australia are facing a major assault on their conditions via the use of sub-contracting companies. Exxon-Mobil-Esso and its contractor UGL have set up a sub-contracting company that will now employ the workers. This company is […]

President Duterte has declared martial law in the southern Filipino island of Mindanao, supposedly in response to the ongoing conflict by armed groups there. The spark was the offensive by the Maute group in the city of Marawi where many people were killed. The Filipino army response has led to many […]

On the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum recognising the ongoing existence of Indigenous people in Australia’s Constitution, and the 20th anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report, which exposed the extent of forced child removals, a major Aboriginal convention was held at Uluru, near Alice Springs. The Constitutional recognition […]

The hunger strike by 1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, has ended after marathon talks on the weekend between Palestinian leaders in jail and Israeli officials. The deal struck saw the prisoners win many of their demands. In the last week, the health of many prisoners had deteriorated markedly with […]

The industrial dispute at the huge Grasberg copper and gold mine that started earlier this month, has continued to escalate with the company, Freeport-McMoran now having terminated the contracts of over 2,000 workers. The mine has always been controversial because of its massive size, its environmental impact on the region […]

Following his successful constitutional referendum on gaining more powers for the post of President, President Erdogan, last Sunday wasted no time in promising to fight mercilessly against all his enemies. With the situation for workers already very serious such calls only promise more hard times. This week, two teachers who […]

This week, thousands of members of the Korean Metal Workers Union took to the streets against proposed amendments to the Labour Act and for secure jobs. They also staged a solidarity rally in support of two of their comrades, Jeon Yeong-soo and Lee Seong-ho, who are now into their second […]

Jenny Marcos was a leading activist for the Peninsula Employees Union, the union representing workers at the luxury Manila Peninsula Hotel, when in January of this year she was sacked and two of her colleagues suspended. Their ‘crime’ was to negotiate for better working conditions, like the use of a […]