India’s workers put Modi on notice

Jagadish G. Chandra is a member of New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India). Undoubtedly India’s recent 48 hour General Strike in January 2019, when nearly 220 million workers, peasants, agricultural labourers, street vendors etc. struck work will go down in history as a record-breaking one. Interestingly the previous record for largest general strike was also […]

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Tunisia: Public sector general strike paralyses the country

On Thursday, a reported 750,000 public sector workers went on a nationwide strike in Tunisia, called by the UGTT (General Union of Tunisian Workers, the main trade union organisation) against the pay freeze and other austerity policies imposed by the IMF, in collaboration with the current government of Youssef Chahed. Public services were largely paralysed, […]

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Walk-out against sexual harassment at Google

Anonymous Google worker, San Francisco Bay Area. #MeToo hit the tech world as thousands, of Google employees, led by women, organized a historic walkout from work on November 1 at 11:10 AM. Spurred by a October 25 New York Times article highlighting that Google “systemically allowed senior executives accused of sexual misconduct to leave the […]

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Student activists demanding release of detained Jasic Technology workers in Shenzhen

China: Regime crackdown and hunger strike by young detainees

At the end of August, the CCP (‘Communist’ Party) dictatorship launched a nationally coordinated crackdown against left youth activists and workers fighting for trade union rights in Shenzhen. Dozens have been arrested since police smashed down the door to the Huizhou apartment housing the Jasic Technology Workers’ Support Group, comprising dismissed workers and young left-wing […]

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