Yearly Archives: 2015

Our regular weekly mini news email will take a summer break. We will be back with our regular weekly updates in February 2016. We would like to wish all our working class sisters and brothers a safe end of the year. In struggle and solidarity, AAWL.

With the recent upsurge of workers’ activity against worsening economic conditions, the Chinese government has also increased its repression against labour activists. This month 21 labour activists were arrested in the southern province of Guangdong. While some have been released, a number of them remain in jail. A growing international […]

On Wednesday 16 December, tens of thousands of Korean workers staged a general strike to protest against the ongoing repression of the labour movement. Workers from a number of different sectors took action for varying lengths of time in 16 provinces. In addition, the South Korean government stopped international unionists […]

Mahmoud Beheshti Langroodi was released last Tuesday after judicial authorities at Evin prison agreed to temporarily release him on condition he terminate his hunger strike. Mahmoud had been in prison since mid-October and had been on a hunger strike for 21 days. The situation for workers in Iran is very […]

The uprising and subsequent civil war in Syria has not only devastated that country but has become a theatre of war for competing local, regional and imperialist powers. The recent direct military intervention of Russia has led to a realignment of some of these forces. The losers of this war […]

The last few years has seen an increasing number of workers coming to Australia on a number of different visa status. The increasing use of temporary workers has also led to an increase in the exploitation of these workers (see here, here and here). The most recent example to come […]

Despite the continued and ongoing repression by the Israeli army and police forces, widespread resistance by Palestinians against the Occupation continues. Thousands of Palestinians are in Israeli jails, while every day more are targeted for detention. In the last couple of days of this week, another three Palestinians were killed […]

While a recent report has put the number of refugees and displaced people in the world at 60 million, the highest ever, the Australian government continues to implement its draconian and cruel anti-refugee policies. For International Human Rights Day on 10 December, a series of protests were held around Australia, […]

The last few months in South Korea have seen a number of mobilisations by workers in defence of their rights and conditions amid a continual crackdown by the South Korean government (see here, here, here and here). This repression culminated this week with the arrest of Hang Sang Kyun, the […]

In an escalation of the ongoing targeting of unions in Australia via a Royal Commission (see here and here), this week two leaders, John Setka and Shaun Reardon, of the powerful Construction union (CFMEU) in the southern state of Victoria were arrested. They were charged with blackmail in relation to […]