Kashmir
Kashmir: Successful Trade Union rights conference held
Government fails to solve the problems of the quake affected public sector workers.
Asia
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Murderous raid on Anti-War Rally in Colombo
Siritunga Jaysuriya of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) and a handful of associates in the ‘United People’s Movement’ escaped with their lives when over 300 armed thugs, led by a deputy minister, raided […]
Pakistan
Pakistan: protest against murder attempt on union rights campaigner
TURCP campaigners and social rights activists condemn police inaction
Pakistan
Pakistan: Journalist union and Hawkers union win the important battle against bosses
The joint struggle of the Federal Union of Journalists and the Newspaper Hawkers Union forced the newspaper bosses to retreat from reducing the newspapers holidays from 8 to 6 days annually.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh: Military called in as political crisis continues
Troops were deployed throughout Bangladesh on Sunday 11 December supposedly to “maintain law and order”, according to a Presidential order.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: The plantation volcano erupts
The 15 day long tea plantation strike – the longest in recent history – is supposed to have come to an end.
Pakistan
Pakistan: The veil and Muslim women
There is again heated debate going on around the veil worn by Muslim women.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: United Socialist Party holds successful congress as country’s crisis deepens
Three days before the congress of the United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka) was convened in Colombo, a suicide bomb attack in the city targeted the minister of defence – the brother of the president, […]
Malaysia
Malaysia: Armed police and bulldozers again attack villagers
Send urgent protests to stop demolitions and evictions!
Malaysia
Malaysia: Embassies
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