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
Asia
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
India
Gurgaon, India: Maruti Suzuki Workers’ Strike
The 13 day strike of over 2000 workers in the Maruti Suzuki India’s (MSI) Manesar plant in Gurgoan (Haryana), close to the national capital Delhi, in the first weeks of June is an important sign […]
Malaysia
Malaysia: Thousands of people protest in Kuala Lumpur for clean and fair elections
Massive crackdown on opposition
India
India: ‘Bhimayana’ – untouchability past and present
The continuing struggle against caste oppression
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Riot police attack striking oil workers
Hunger strikers douse themselves with petrol and threatened to set themselves alight
China
China: Facing a summer of discontent?
Upturn in mass protests and “unprecedented display of police strength”
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Sting cancels concert in support of striking oil workers
“Hunger strikes, imprisoned workers and tens of thousands on strike represents a virtual picket line which I have no intention of crossing,” Sting said in an online statement.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Over 200,000 march for democracy and against property tycoons
Interview with Socialist Action (CWI) in Hong Kong after July 1 demonstration