Mahmoud Salehi arrested and re-imprisoned for one more year About noon on Saturday, October 28, 2017, Mahmoud Salehi, a prominent activist of the Iranian Labour Movement, was arrested by four plainclothes security forces immediately after his kidney dialysis in a...
After meeting in Dakar, the Board of the Comité Syndical Francophone pour l’Education et la Formation committed to promoting quality public education accessible to all, as well as increase vibrant and respected teacher trade unionism. The privatisation and commodification of...
In a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, from 16 to 20 October, experts in opencast mining from the workers’ group, the governments’ group and the employers’ group were able to reach consensus on the new code of practice which will be...
This week, after a marathon court hearing, a court ordered the release on bail of eight human rights activists. These activists had been arrested with a number of other people in the last few months following their attendance at a...
The imprisoned president of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), Han Sang-gyun, was recently awarded the George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award by the North American union organisation AFL-CIO. President Han has been imprisoned in South Korea since December...
This week, a 51 year old car worker named Francis, died at work from the harassment and victimisation he had recently received from the Pricol company management. The Pricol car component manufacturing factory is located in southern India in Coimbatore,...
A few days ago on Thursday October 26, an explosion ripped apart a firework factory in Kosambi, Tangerang, Banten in East Java, Indonesia. The explosion and the subsequent fire killed at least 47 workers and injured many more. The explosion...
The global electronics giant Samsung opened a new semiconductor fabrication line in Pyeongtaek, South Korea earlier this year. Even in this short time, there have been two workers who have killed themselves as a direct result of the punishing and...
All around the world workers are prevented from organising by capitalists and governments. We face fines, dismissals, beatings, rapes and even murder. By keeping us unorganised, they can pay us less, make us work harder, and make greater profits. By...
The civil conflicts that began in West Asia and North Africa in 2011 continue to create internal conflicts as the various players are unable to resolve the economic and political crises in these countries. In Yemen, amid a brutal war...
The International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI) was formed in 1999 in Toronto-Canada and formally announced its formation in January 2000. In nearly two decades of continuous activism, we have played an impactful role in securing international support for Iranian workers’ struggles against the Islamic Republic of Iran, employers, and the inhumane conditions the capitalist order has imposed on working-class lives in Iran. During these years, our politics and the foundational basis guiding our activism have been predicated on working-class traditions with an uncompromising emphasis on working-class independence and autonomy.