Kashmir
Kashmir: “Paradise turned into hell”
Indian ‘Fact-finding mission’ will not offer solution
Asia
India
India: General strike of 7th September heralds new wave of radicalisation
As we reported last week, the general strike of 7 September in India was called by a wide range of trade unions. It was in protests at the rocketing prices of food and fuel while […]
China
China: The struggle for grassroots independent unions
Regime announces union ‘reforms’ – is democratisation of the state-run unions on the cards?
Pakistan
Pakistan: Floods raise spectre of social unrest and polarization
Eradication of feudalism and capitalism would free millions
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Media coverage of visit by Joe Higgins, Socialist MEP
Media reports of Joe Higgins’ recent visit to Kazakhstan, where he called for the scrapping of an OSCE conference in the authoritarian-run country
Pakistan
Pakistan flood crisis: Solidarity still needed
A new report on the TURCP web-site shows the ongoing and tireless flood relief work by trade unionists in Pakistan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Breaches of human rights
On 8th September Joe Higgins, MEP Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) and Tanja Niemeier, LSP – PSL (CWI Belgium), spoke at a press conference of the GUE/NGL on breaches of human rights in Kazakh Prisons.
Pakistan
Pakistan: Two ‘floods’ devastate working people and poor
Flash floods destroy lives, soaring price inflation means poverty
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Joe Higgins on human rights violations
Joe Higgins MEP addresses the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights on the brutal, repressive regime in Kazakhstan and its blatant breaches of human, civil and political rights.
India
All-India general strike: Enormous potential for struggle demonstrated
Workers showed courageous determination