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The fight by workers at the Ssangyong Motor Company that was started in 2009 with the heroic occupation of their factory is still continuing despite many setbacks. Former workers of Ssangyong have now started a public hunger strike. They were encouraged by a visit by international trade union representatives. For […]

As previously reported, the fight by the Maruti Suzuki workers in the Gurgaon region of India, near Delhi, was a bitter and historic struggle by workers in their attempts to form an independent trade union. The efforts of the Maruti workers are now focused on getting their comrades out of […]

While Iraq is still in the grips of armed civil conflict, workers are reorganising and attempting to improve their wages and conditions. Following dismissals of hundreds of workers at a state owned leather factory, the Federation of Workers Councils & Unions of Iraq organised a number of actions to highlight […]

As we reported last week, garment workers’ conditions will only improve when workers are organised enough to win better pay and conditions. This week, news came that injured workers and families of dead workers from the Rana Plaza collapse, the Tazreen fire, and the fire at the Ali Enterprise fire […]

Notwithstanding the direct and continuing brutal repression by the Israeli state against Palestinians, workers in Palestine also face daily hardships. The economic restrictions placed by Israel, coupled with widespread corruption, places workers in Palestine under terrible hardships. This week, medical workers in Palestine went on strike to protest at continuing […]

With the internal conflict in Syria now in its third year and around 2 million refugees from the conflict, the situation for workers and their communities is being further endangered by the stated aim of the USA to bomb Syria. While this bombing is couched in the language of democracy […]

One of Egypt's leading labour lawyers, and member of the Revolutionary Socialists, Haitham Mohamedain, has been detained by the Egyptian Army. Haitham Mohamedain was in Suez representing workers arrested during the recent long running strike at Suez Steel. There is a protest letter that can be signed here.

In another example of the dangerous conditions that Chinese workers endure, an ammonia leak at a cold storage factory in Baoshan district has killed 15 workers and injured another 25. Initial reports indicate that a burst pipe was responsible for the tragedy. It was also reported that the workers had […]

With the garment industry centred in the Asian region, workers in countries like Cambodia and Bangladesh have fought very hard to organise and improve their conditions, both in terms of salary and working conditions. On top of the mass murder that occurred recently at the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, workers […]

While repression of anti government protesters continues amid popular protests, the situation for migrant workers in Bahrain is as bad as in countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Following the unexplained death of a fellow worker while in police custody, over 500 workers, mainly from south Asian countries, began an […]