May Day has been celebrated internationally since 1886 as the day for workers to unite as a class. Workers need to stop the politics of austerity and war. Capitalists are killing us, in our workplaces and in our communities. March in solidarity with workers in struggle everywhere. […]
Daily Archives: April 19, 2015
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The situation for Korean workers in the last few years has been one of almost continual mobilisations and struggles as workers and unions battle against the effects of contracting out, casualisation and flexible labour employment. The present conservative government is trying to exploit the ongoing capitalist economic crises by enacting new […]
It is almost two years ago that the single greatest industrial massacre in the world occurred in Dhaka, Bangladesh when the Rana Plaza building collapsed. The building housed a number of textile factories and over 1,100 garment workers were killed in the collapse. Hundreds more were injured. Compensation payments to […]
With the approaching first anniversary of the Soma mine disaster where 301 miners were killed, the Occupational Health and Safety situation remains as bad as ever. Earlier this year a report detailed that in 2014, 1,886 workers in Turkey were killed at their workplaces. This year’s toll is heading to […]
The inhumane conditions that workers in the ship breaking industry in South Asia face, have been reported on before. Ships from the European Union make up a majority of these ships. The European Union is proposing new legislation that is intended to clean up this industry. Unfortunately, the current version […]
The effects and repression of the continued occupation and colonisation of Palestine by the Israeli settler state has been reported many times, click here, here, and here. A new report by human rights watch details how Israeli farms based in the occupied West Bank are able to exploit the misery […]
On Monday the 13th of April Melinda “Mei” Magsino was walking home when a single assailant came up behind her and shot her in the head at point blank range. Mei had stopped working formally as a journalist a few years ago but in her time as a journalist she […]