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.
Asia
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
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: “We are not begging – we are demanding our rights!”
Working class beginning to lose fear
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Socialist Party MEP visits oil strikers
Workers faced with jail and brutal repression – Solidarity urgently needed!Reprint of article from SIPTU union newsletter
Malaysia
Malaysia: Frightened government continues to hold the ‘EO6′
PSM draws parallels with crackdown on Reformasi movement
Asia
Vietnam: Massive strikes by footwear workers – 20 workers arrested
Strike wave driven by one of the world’s highest inflation rates