The highest tariff of 50% imposed on one of the smallest and poorest sub-Saharan African countries, essentially penalizes the inability of its workers producing American brands to afford them.

The Congress brought together 52 delegates from all its regions to participate in this important process.

Mbali Ngwenda of the Pan Africanism Today Secretariat writes about the struggles of United Textile Employees (UNITE), the radical textile workers’ union of Lesotho

The mass resignation of the workers was due to severe exploitation and also physical abuse by the bosses and the police.

The struggle by the workers, under the banner of Asanghadita Mekhala Tozhilali Union (AMTU) emerged victorious after the communist government in Kerala passed an amendment to the labour law ending the inhuman practice.

The workers in two of the Nien Hsing’s six factories demand the creation of a separate fabric and paper mill sector, the activities of which are wrongly classified under garment sector, which has the lowest pay.