Colonial mining fuels Israeli genocide: global protests target Glencore
Glencore, one of the world’s largest mining conglomerates at the confluence of worker exploitation, environmental destruction, and genocide, brought Palestine solidarity activists, trade unionists and mining affected communities together in a unified protest.
En Camerún, los trabajadores vencen el gigante azucarero francés a pesar de la “sangrienta represión”
El prolongado malestar laboral por los bajos salarios, la represión sindical y las condiciones de trabajo inseguras en la mayor empresa azucarera de Camerún (propiedad de un gigante agrícola francés), estalló en una huelga el 26 de enero debido a retrasos en los pagos.
Cameroon’s striking workers win against French sugar giant despite “bloody repression”
Longstanding labor unrest over low wages, union suppression, and unsafe work conditions at Cameroon’s largest sugar company, owned by a French agro-giant, erupted into a strike on January 26 over delayed payments.
Unity is an imperative: reclaiming African Liberation Day, 60 years on
African Liberation Day marks the founding of the Organization of African Unity in 1963. While the idea of ‘liberation’ has since been removed in letter, and even in spirit, from official commemorations of the day, radical forces have held onto it in their fight against capitalism
Indian workers remain alive to the class struggle despite decades of neoliberal onslaught
A new dossier by the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research examines the impact of years of neoliberal policies on the Indian working class and the long struggle by workers across sectors to protect their basic rights
Estados Unidos tiene una crisis de trabajo infantil. Los legisladores la quieren empeorar.
El estado de Iowa acaba de aprobar uno de los proyectos de ley a favor del trabajo infantil más extremos de los últimos tiempos, que deja a los empresarios libres de responsabilidad si un niño trabajador muere cumpliendo sus labores
The US has a child labor crisis. Lawmakers are trying to make it worse.
Iowa just passed one of the most extreme pro-child labor bills in recent times, leaving employers off the hook if a child worker dies on the job
Solidarity pours in for workers of McDonald’s in Serbia
Workers of international fast food chain McDonald’s in Serbia accuse the company’s management of exploitation due to low wages, poor working conditions, long shifts, arbitrary transfers, insults and abuses
Child labor is alive and well in the United States
A Hyundai subsidiary used up to fifty underage migrant workers at an auto plant known for hazardous conditions, according to former and current employees
Thousands of workers on strike at South Africa’s Impala Platinum mines
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) went on strike at the Impala Platinum mines in Rustenburg this week. Among the key demands raised by the workers is an end to exploitation by labor contractors
- Brazil approves end to 6×1 work schedule and reduction of the work week to 40 hours
- Israel kills 31 people in Lebanon on the eve of Eid al-Adha
- Israel carries out sixth consecutive Eid massacre in Gaza
- Far-right Janez Janša to return for fourth government term in Slovenia
- With peace deal nearly final, US launches fresh attacks on Iran
