The first court proceedings for the Fukushima nuclear disaster that occurred in March 2011 are only now commencing, starting with the criminal trial against former Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) executives. This delay is the result of the collusion and the political ties that exist between TEPCO and the Japanese […]
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On Friday 30 June, over 50,000 workers staged a demonstration in central Seoul in pursuit of a set of demands. They included a call for the minimum wage to be increased to 10 thousand Won per hour (almost $US9/h), the abolition of precarious work practices, and the right for workers […]
Last week, tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the street in many cities to protest against the increasing mob related murders of Muslims and other minority groups in India. Many of these killings have been labelled ‘cow terrorism’ as far right gangs have used Hinduism’s reverence for cows as […]
With more than 13,000 people having been killed already, and with over 5,000 new cases of cholera a day being reported, working class communities in Yemen are facing a growing catastrophe. This unprecedented cholera epidemic is the result of a brutal war that has devastated the country and destroyed the […]
The first week of July in Australia is National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance week (NAIDOC). It began in the 1920′s when Aboriginal groups started to campaign against the discriminatory treatment that Indigenous Australians faced. NAIDOC week is an opportunity to continue the fight for justice for Aboriginal Australians. This […]
This week, a new front in the war against unions opened up in Cambodia with the local beer producer Cambrew, a subsidiary of the global giant Carlsberg, taking legal action against the Cambodian Food and Service Workers Federation (CFSWF). The company is seeking $US60,000 in compensation from the union for […]
The arrest of activists marked this year’s 20th anniversary of the end of Hong Kong colonisation by the United Kingdom and its handover to China as a special economic and political zone. In the last few years, and especially since the big mobilisations of 2014, there has been an ongoing […]
Last week, thousands of demonstrators held a rally in central Seoul to demand the withdrawal of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) military system that the USA and South Korean governments had agreed to. Opposition to this new weapon system has continued to increase since its announcement earlier this year. […]
The local Government of Punjab has invested a lot of political prestige in the construction of the new modern rail based mass rapid transit system, the Orange Line Metro Train, for the city of Lahore. In its determination to build the line as quickly as possible the lives of workers […]
The dispute at the giant Freeport-McMoran Grasberg mine in West Papua has now entered its third month. As of last week, 4,220 workers had been fired for taking strike action. The workers at this mine have a proud history of fighting and taking on this huge global company as the […]