Trade Unions
France: Repression and Resistance
K D Tait, Red Flag No 5 Wed, 25/05/2016 - 12:19French Trade unions have staged two nationwide days of action in response to the Socialist Party government's use of emergency powers to impose its reforms to the Work Law without a vote in the Nation Read more...
France: Government plans to impose “labour reforms”
KD Tait Thu, 12/05/2016 - 10:34President Hollande’s Socialist government has decided to use emergency powers to force through the ‘El Khomri’ labour reform bill, a major plank of the PS government’s austerity offensive, which has p Read more...
France: workers and youth mobilise against the “Socialist” government
Marc Lasalle Sat, 12/03/2016 - 17:36One year after the 12 deaths resulting from the terrorist attack on the office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, and in the fifth month of the state of emergency imposed after130 died in the No Read more...
Women’s struggles today
Joy Macready Tue, 08/03/2016 - 09:15Women continue to face fierce austerity attacks on welfare, jobs, trade union rights, education, healthcare, childcare – the list seems to never end. Read more...
Pakistan: Women organise union in the home-based industrial sector
Alisha Arshad Tue, 01/03/2016 - 12:27Women workers are often the hardest hit by neo-liberal restructuring and capitalist crisis. Read more...
Miners' struggles could end decades of ANC hegemony in South Africa
Jeremy Dewar, Red Flag No 2, January 2016 Tue, 19/01/2016 - 21:26South Africa, one of the world’s major emerging markets, is about to tip into recession. Its currency has slipped to a historic low against the dollar. Read more...
Pakistan: Factory collapses near Lahore – 51 workers killed
Martin Suchanek Tue, 24/11/2015 - 09:01Capitalism kills, in the literal sense of the word. On November 5, a factory in Sunder Estate near Lahore collapsed, leaving at least 51 dead and more than 100 injured. Read more...
Brazil: A "coup" against the working class
Eloy Nogueira, Liga Socialista, Brazil Tue, 06/10/2015 - 09:55In June 2013, the masses took to the streets of Brazil to protest at increases in fares on public transport. Read more...