China
China: Young women fight for a better life
Young women play key role in strikes in China’s export industry
Asia
China
Global food crisis “can topple regimes”
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.inf
China
China: Shenzhen bus workers clash with police
More than 400 bus drivers and conductors in strike action and sit-in over wages in China’s southern metropolis of Shenzhen
Pakistan
Pakistan: Airlines workers win
Four-day strike called off. Government accepted all three demands
Pakistan
Pakistan: Victory for KESC workers
4,500 sacked workers reinstated
Pakistan
Pakistan: Sacked workers vent anger in Karachi
Stand off continues as workers’ siege of company headquarters enters third day
Hong Kong
Hong Kong: LSD splits
Radical political force dealt a serious blow • Pro-Beijing camp jubilant
Pakistan
Pakistan: Can Pakistan become a theocratic state?
Religion, politics and the working class
China
China: Another suicide at Foxconn
Nationalise Foxconn under workers’ control and management – end the scourge of ‘blood factories’
Pakistan
Pakistan: Railway workers on the move
20,000 jobs under threat – protesting workers forced the authorities to retreat