As reported previously, the increasing integration of the Burmese economy into the world capitalist system is creating many challenges for workers in Burma. In addition to the issues already mentioned of Burmese workers being exploited as cheap migrant labour all around the region, there is growing interest by fashion companies […]
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This week’s story of corruption within world’s football authority FIFA has not only started uncovering massive criminal activities, but has also exposed the situation for migrant workers in Qatar. The World Cup in 2022 is supposed to be held in Qatar, but there is growing international pressure on the country […]
As reported last week, it is now a year since the military took power in Thailand. The military regime has consolidated its power, and is trying to re-write history and create a reactionary nationalist consciousness in Thai society. In the meantime, hundreds of human rights and labour rights activists, as […]
3CR is an activist radio station. For 39 years, 3CR Community Radio in Melbourne, Australia has brought you union, worker, indigenous, women’s, ethnic, environmental, music and other community programs that are not heard elsewhere. Every week AAWL presents its Asia Pacific Currents program on 3CR Radio. 3CR’s programs are podcast […]
Last week, around 5,000 workers at the Renault car factory in Bursa went out on strike demanding better pay. They were soon joined in solidarity protests by thousands of Fiat car workers who also went out seeking better pay and conditions. These strikes are now affecting the whole industrial region […]
As reported last week, thousand of desperate workers from Burma and Bangladesh are stuck on the high seas as they try to flee repression, exploitation and poverty. Their situation has been made worse by increasing aggressive and repressive policies by governments around the region as they seek to control and […]
The 22 of May was the first anniversary of the military coup in Thailand. After one year, the military is still in power and showing no sign of going back to the barracks, with no justice forthcoming for victims. With the first year anniversary of the coup, the military was […]
As reported before, conditions and exploitation in the fashion industry are among the worst in the world (see here, here and here). While workers toil under incredible pressures and dangerous conditions, the fashion houses of the world make huge profits by selling clothes at highly inflated prices. A new documentary […]
The far right anti Islamic group Reclaim Australia that held nationwide protests in early April, has split in the process of trying to organise another round of racist rallies in mid July. The new organisation, called United Patriots Front (UFP), is organising a new rally for the 31st of May […]
As reported a number of times previously, Japanese workers continue to face increasing pressures at work such as long work hours and precarious work contracts. In a recent action, thousands of people rallied in Tokyo to protest against the government’s proposed new labour laws. Labour activists say these new laws […]