Monthly Archives: March 2017

After a fight that lasted two months, workers employed at the Parmalat dairy factory, won their right to secure employment contracts and wage increases. The company had tried to introduce a new agreement that would have increased the number of casual and contract workers, limit union rights and offer minimal […]

This week, a young woman worker was killed and 7 others hospitalised when a wood-fired boiler at their garment factory exploded. The Zhen Tai Garment Co Ltd, located in the Thmey disctrict of Phnom Penh, employs nearly 2,000 workers and is a major supplier of Levi trousers. The garment sector […]

This week, 300 workers held a sit in protest at the Hyundai Motor factory, located in Tamil Nadu, against the company’s refusal to allow entry to two labour activists. Workers’ anger at the anti-union stance of management dates back to the factory’s launch in 2008. Other major actions and disputes […]

The political situation in Syria is changing as the remnant forces of the popular uprising retreat under the greater military might of a coalition of imperialist actors. There is an ongoing realignment of the imperialist and reactionary forces involved as each now tries to reposition itself to gain advantage in […]

This week, refugee activists in the Australian cities of Melbourne and Sydney tried to stop the deportation of a refugee who has been on a hunger strike. Saeed, a stateless person whose English is very poor, is to be deported to a war zone as his appeal to remain in […]

The decision earlier this month by the US military to build a new Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in South Korea has sparked major protests from Korean anti-war activists. Activists are worried that the deployment of this new system will only serve to heighten tensions in the Korean […]

This week, major demonstrations occurred around Lebanon in protest against a proposed new sales tax that will disproportionately affect workers and their families who are already enduring low salaries. In one demonstration, the Prime Minister Saad Hariri had to abandon his car when it was surrounded by protesters angry at […]

Late last week, Elena Urlaeva, head of the Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan, was released after a concerted international campaign. Urlaeva was arrested earlier this month as she was preparing to go to an international conference. Urlaeva is an outspoken critic of forced and child labour in Uzbekistan's cotton sector. […]

On Saturday, 13 workers from the Maruti Suzuki factory were sentenced to life imprisonment by the District Court of Gurugram, in Haryana state. This follows on from the previous ruling that had found an additional 18 workers guilty of a variety of charges following incidents in 2012. These sentences are […]

Hundreds of workers at the FAW-Volkswagen factory situated in the northeast city of Changchun have continued to take action over the last few weeks. Their demands are against the practice of agency labour hire which allows non-permanent workers to be paid as little as 50% as permanent workers for the […]