The HAEA public health union is particularly in the crosshairs of the authorities. It was set up at the end of 2019 in the wake of the democracy mobilisations. It quickly brought together nearly a quarter of the sector’s staff and has become one of the authorities’ pet peeves : - HAEA organised…

On 11 September, tens of thousands of health care workers demonstrated in Warsaw. The end of the demonstration was not the end of the movement : they occupied the street, in front of the Prime Minister’s office and set up tents.The movement was initiated by comrades from the OZZPiP union, but it…

Fang Ran was not alarmed when his belongings, including his phone, computer and ID card, were confiscated by state security agents in southern China in June. The 26-year-old doctoral student at the University of Hong Kong was a Communist Party member and had often been “invited to tea”, a euphem…

Bolt delivery couriers in Ukraine, like many gig economy workers around the world, receive no medical coverage when injured and have few, if any labor rights. Credit : Bohdan TizkiySome 70 Bolt food delivery drivers in Ukraine are waging a digital strike after their wages were reduced by 50 percent…

During the last weeks the struggle of Alitalia workers against ITA project has dramatically increased. The Italian government, with the EU support, has decided to erase the Italian historical airline to start up a small airline with a few aircraft, no handling, no maintenance and not a chance to tak…

Some factory owners have been accused of exploiting and failing to protect their employees during the latest COVID-19 outbreak, and with unions lying low since the coup, workers are unable to seek redress.Ko Aung Min Thein began suffering from a headache and muscle aches in the second week of July…

The South Korean government has arrested the leader of the country’s largest umbrella organization of independent unions, a move that will further strain ongoing tensions with the labor movement. Yang Kyeung-soo, president of the million-member Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, was arrested in…

From fighting contract concessions to making common-good demands like postal banking and public broadband, Canadian postal workers’ fighting unionism should be an inspiration to USPS workers.Rank-and-file postal workers are carrying on a proud history of class struggle within the Canadian Union of…

In May, Palestinian workers urgently appealed for international solidarity against a sharp escalation of Israeli violence. Their appeals have been met with an unprecedented response—even in the United States, where labor officialdom has long supported the world’s last remaining apartheid regime…

Release now Pablo Costas Villar and the crew members of the Cobija, kidnapped in Yemen Sent by the comrades of Solidaridad Obrera, member organisation of the International Labor Network of Solidarity and Struggles. The undersigned trade union organisations, being aware of the situation in which the…

Sonali Kolhatkar : For years RAWA spoke out against the U.S. occupation and now that it has ended, the Taliban are back. Could President Biden have withdrawn U.S. forces in a manner that would have left Afghanistan in a safer situation than currently ? Could he have done more to ensure the Taliban…

Over 400,000 civil servants have been on strike against the military regime since February, according to Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG). The NUG’s Planning and Finance Minister, U Tin Tun Naing, said on Tuesday that almost 410,000 government staff have “steadfastly joined the…

In Turkey, collective bargaining for 5.5 million officials and pensioners has ended with an agreement that ratifies a significant decrease in purchasing power. The increases agreed upon are far below the demands that were presented by the trade unions (not only KESK !) and are derisory compared to…

The Air Quality Index (AQI) reading that day reached 179, in the unhealthy red zone of the Environmental Protection Agency’s rating system. The concentration of fine particulate matter was 11 times the World Health Organization’s recommended maximum exposure level for pollutants. Not just wildfi…

We, the women of the World March of Women, a feminist, internationalist and anti-capitalist movement, stand in solidarity and echo our voices in repudiation of the situation faced by the peoples and women of Afghanistan.We stand in solidarity with our Afghan sisters whose lives are even more threate…

CPTM’s (Metropolitan Trains Company of São Paulo) railway workers of lines 11 - Coral, 12 - Safira and 13 - Jade decided in an assembly to go on strike on Tuesday, August 24. São Paulo Railway workers are demanding salary reinstatement for 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 fiscal years. The strike was vot…

Support the Palestinian civilian population and its students : free Layan Nasir !The last Israeli attack on Gaza in May surprised by the solidarity and unity of the Palestinian civilian population in the West Bank and Israel. The extremely well attended general strike demonstrated the power of tra…

Please send your solidarity video or/ and letter to krmu.secretary@gmail.comToday, decades of the economic crisis, global pandemic crisis and intensified climate crisis are intertwined. These crises reveals conflicting contradictions of the system. I would like to convey, in this circumstance, my so…

Current and former employees at New Flyer, a large manufacturer of electric buses that supplies public transit agencies across the country, say that they have faced a pattern of racial discrimination at the company’s manufacturing plants in California and Alabama. Workers are demanding that the co…

Since the first scramble of Africa to the present day, the Congolese working class and the poor have endured every kind of horror, repression, exploitation, and oppression within the hands of imperialist looting and barbarism. The labour coercion during the rubber regime under King Leopold II of Bel…

The national offices of the Union syndicale Solidaires, a member organisation of our Network, have been defaced, covered with racist inscriptions and symbols of the extreme right. In France, other trade union premises have already suffered such attacks and this is part of the physical violence again…

Although coal-mining jobs comprise a rapidly shrinking share of the US economy, they became potent symbolic fodder during the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. Candidates from both major parties devoted considerable airtime to the subject, with varying degrees of success. And yet, as 1,100 metal…

HKCTU statement in response to HKPTU’s decision to disband Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union (HKPTU) has announced their decision to disband today. HKPTU has been under enormous political pressure recently before arriving at this decision, which we understand and respect. The sustaining att…

Occupied Palestine — The inexcusable, tragic murder of Palestinian activist Nizar Banat,– the fierce critic of the Palestinian Authority, or PA, whose “health deteriorated” mysteriously last week while he was in PA custody — shows us once again that Palestinians have no protection. No Pale…

Since Saturday 31 July, a conflict has been going on in the company. On Monday 2 August, more than 500 workers met in a general assembly and decided on an unlimited strike. They are demanding the reinstatement of one of their number, who was dismissed for a comment criticising the company on "social…