India
India: The Protest Spectacle! Who gained?! Who lost?!
Defeat and climbdown by government
Asia
Kazakhstan
Poland: Solidarity picket in defense of oppressed oil workers in Kazakhstan
A solidarity picket in defense of oppressed oil workers in Kazakhstan was held near the Consulate of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the headquarters of the firm ’Oil and Gas Exploration’, in Krakow on August […]
Kazakhstan
Sweden: Local miners’ union donates to Kazakhstan oil workers’ struggle
“I really hope more trade union organizations give support”
Kazakhstan
Ireland: Report from Protest in Solidarity with Kazakh Oil Strikers
A protest took place in Dublin on the 12th of August in solidarity with striking oil workers in Kazakhstan who are engaged in a 3 month long strike against Kazmuniagas.
India
India: Bangalore garment workers woes and challenges ahead
The life of half a million garment workers in Bangalore is nothing but a hellish existence.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Right of abode conflict – a socialist standpoint
Fight racism • United struggle needed against neo-liberalism and capitalism
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: ‘Evidence’ fabricated against opposition leaders Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbaev
Prisoners’ campaigner, Vadim Kuramshin, arrested twice in 3 days
Thailand
Thailand: ‘Clone’ of Thaksin elected, but social conflicts could persist
The business-woman, Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of the controversial former prime minister, the tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra, was chosen by Thailand’s parliament as the country’s 28th prime minister on 5 August.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Oil workers strike in West Kazakhstan now in third month
Hundreds sacked and union lawyer sentenced to six years in jail. Intransigent employer refuses negotiations. Now a striker murdered!
China
CWI Summer School: China on the verge of social explosion
Inner-party struggles as repression tightened