At least 40 workers were killed on Thursday 24 November, when a construction platform at a power station in the Yichun, Jiangxi province, collapsed. Many other workers were injured. The cause for such a catastrophic collapse is not yet known, but this is just the latest of a series of […]
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Earlier this month, a fire at an illegally run garment factory in a residential area of Sahibabad, New Delhi, killed 13 workers. The fire occurred early in the morning and killed the workers as they were asleep in the factory building itself. In India’s rapid industrialisation over the last two […]
The the powerful South Korean workers movement will be holding a nationwide general strike on Wednesday 30 November. While the primary objective is to force the resignation of the President, Park Geun-hye, workers are also fighting for their rights and their wages and conditions. The South Korean workers’ movement has […]
Following on from last week’s big protests in Malaysia, and in many other cities around the world, the Malaysian government has stepped up repression against the anti-corruption movement. Maria Chin Abdullah, one of the leaders of Bersih, had been arrested prior to the demonstration with a number of others. Maria […]
The rise of the racist One Nation Party in Australia in the recent Federal elections has emboldened the far right. Islamophobia is one of the major planks for these movements. In Melbourne, a right wing Zionist group has invited representatives of One Nation to hold a meeting this Sunday to […]
There was a major anti Muslim rally in Colombo this week, by the radical Buddhist organisation Bodu Bala Sena (BBS). The BBS has a history of fomenting xenophobia and racist attacks against religious and ethnic minorities in Sri Lanka. The growth of this religious right wing extremism is also paralleled […]
Meng Han has become the latest independent labour activist in China to be jailed for organising workers and taking industrial action. Meng was sentenced to 18 months in jail for ‘gathering crowds to disrupt public order’. Meng is the fourth Guangdong labour rights activist to be convicted in two months […]
In the terrible inferno that followed the explosion inside a beached oil tanker, at least 21 workers at the Gadani, Pakistan shipbreaking yards were killed (see video). Another 60 were injured, some with extensive burns, while up to another 50 workers are unaccounted for. The shipbreaking yards of South Asia […]
The Turkish government offensive against workers is continuing under the guise of eradicating coup plotters. While the attempted coup was in July, tens of thousands of workers have been suspended or sacked from their jobs. Late last month another 10,000 workers, mostly academics, teachers and health workers were dismissed for […]
The strike by thousands of public railway and subway workers in South Korea has now been underway for close to six weeks with no sign of an end in sight. The original issues around precarious work and performance pay are still unresolved. While workers are still strong, negotiations with management […]