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This month there has been news from Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

The most important stories:

-WSWS Asia 7: Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific (link 1)

This month there has been news from Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, North Korea, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Most notable has been to continuing strike wave in China and massive, widespread, militant protests against a proposed increase in fuel prices in Indonesia which appear to have been successful.

The most important stories:

This month there has been news from Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

The most important stories:

-WSWS Asia 4: Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific (link 1)

This month there has been news from Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. If you haven't already, I recommend checking out bulmer's blog and also this libcom article on the strike wave in Indonesia.

The most important stories:

This month there has been news from Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Mongolia, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand. Signifcantly there has been both a wave of strikes and a number of land protests building simultaneously - these have continued into the first week of 2012 (though not covered here).

The most important stories:

This month there has been news from Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, North Korea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. The main development to watch is the upsurge in strikes in China, which has been continuing for more than a month now.

This month there has been news from Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Korea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.

This month there has been news from Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, North Korea, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

This month there has been news from Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.

The most important stories:

This month there has been news from Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

The most important stories:

This month there has been news from Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, North Korea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. I'm not going to go into detail or find lots of pictures because I'm still busy working on a set of tools that should make compiling these summaries and similar ones for other regions much easier and faster.

This month there has been news from Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Korea, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.

First I apologise for the lack of a summary for March - this wasn't because the class struggle went on holiday in East Asia, but because I didn't have internet for most of the month, so there was too much to catch up on. This is also why I haven't been able to find so many pictures this month - I just havem't had time.

With protests continuing to spread in the Middle East and North Africa, it was inevitable that the western media would start speculating about it spreading to China.

While revolutions have been kicking off in North Africa this month, many in China have been following events online despite attempts to block "Egypt" from searches (http://t.co/tbL2O0g , http://t.co/FUNoTmF , http://t.co/blKOCbE , http://t.co/PPvGXPn).

This month has seen strikes in Bangladesh, Indonesia, South Korea, and Vietnam , while in the Philippines the president forced the cancellation of a strike by flight crew (although in the end they appear to have come out best for the moment.

libcom articles

Atsumitec Workers Get Pay Raise - http://libcom.org/news/atsumitec-workers-get-pay-raise-22072010 about 17 hours ago
Strike shuts Chinese Honda plants - http://libcom.org/news/strike-shuts-chinese-honda-plants-27052010 17 July 2010 22:49:32
China: Unrest spreads as Honda workers keep striking - http://bit.ly/9LCIKa 17 July 2010 22:49:00

libcom articles
  
Cambodian union calls off garment strike - http://libcom.org/news/cambodian-union-calls-garment-strike-13072010
Cambodian government and unions agree wage increase; strikes could still be on - http://bit.ly/9JZSXH

WSWS: Workers' Struggles in Asia Summaries

libcom articles

Sleepless nights for bosses in the Bangladeshi garment sector
Strikes at Air India to continue despite sackings

WSWS: Workers' Struggles in Asia Summaries

28th of June ( http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jun2010/wkrs-j26.shtml )
19th of June ( http://bit.ly/dAA2si )

This month the strike wave that started in May has continued, as has the governments relatively hands-off, even supprtive approach, and the western media's confused approach. Some think it's a good thing as it will help China switch to a domestically orientated economy, saving the world economy and magically bringing democracy to China a la Solidarinosc.