Workers are not responsible for the capitalist crisis. In all countries the rights and living standards of workers are under attack by capitalists and their governments desperate to increase profits. All workers now face some common problems. All workers need to fight back together for their common demands. The Global […]
Daily Archives: August 19, 2011
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On 20 September Fatah and Hamas will jointly request the United Nations to recognise the State of Palestine AAWL public meeting: What are the priorities for solidarity activists? Wednesday 7 September at 6pm Trades Hall, Lygon Street Carlton Rally: Stop Israeli apartheid! Friday 9 September at 5:30pm State Library, Swanston […]
The current Labour Government is continuing with its policy of trying to intimidate asylum seekers arriving by boat. They hope that if reports of terrible conditions for asylum seekers who arrive in Australia filter back to others who have not yet embarked on the dangerous journey they will go elsewhere. […]
Virgin pilots are on the verge of signing a new collective agreement that will cement good pay rises and other conditions over the next three years. On the other hand, Qantas, Australia’s biggest airline carrier has announced that it will start a major round of restructuring and outsourcing in order […]
Trade union leaders representing workers of the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) have called on the authorities to publish the report of the presidential commission that investigated the recent unrest in the FTZ that followed the killing of Roshen Shanaka by police. Roshen was killed in workers protests against a controversial […]
On Friday 2 September Daniel Urai, President of the Fiji Trade Union Congress and General Secretary of the National Union of Hospitality, Catering and Tourism Industries Employees, and union organiser Nitin Gounder, are scheduled to appear in the Nadi Magistrates Court in Fiji charged with unlawful assembly. Both men are […]
Thousands of oil workers have been on strike in the Manghystau region of western Kazakhstan since May, demanding a wage increase, equal rights with foreign workers, the release of jailed union lawyer Natalya Sokolova and the lifting of restrictions on the activities of independent labor unions in the region. Sokolova […]
With the election of the new government in Thailand on the 3rd of July, many people hoped that the country was going to turn a corner from the political repression that had imprisoned many activists and forced many more in exile. The reality has been that the new Pheu Thai […]
With the popular uprising in Syria now in its sixth month, and amid continued government repression, there are growing signs that some form of military intervention by Western powers, or their regional allies, is being planned. This intervention would be launched under the guise of human rights and liberating the […]
While the focus in recent times has been on other countries in West Asia, workers in Iran have not stopped organising. They face repressive anti union laws and a vast security apparatus, but workers nevertheless keep pressing for their rights and challenging the government. Construction workers in the Kurdish city […]