Asia

A brief people's history of Thailand over the past 150 years from its feudal past to its current state as a parliamentary capitalist democracy.

The history of the uprising in rural Vietnam, still a French colony, which caused the local government to flee. The workers and peasants in the…

A new World Bank report calls for the wholesale elimination of workers' rights.

On Wednesday 6th Sep 25,000 workers from 8 jute mills in the south-western city of Khulna began a 2…

History of the widespread mutiny of US troops in Vietnam that brought the world's most powerful military machine to its knees. The GI anti-war…

In the face of mass resistance, Bangladeshi Government forced to renounce mine project. More actions…

Unrest continues across Bangladesh, with widespread strikes and the mass revolt against an attempt by a British company to begin destructive…

A short biography of journalist Kotoku Shusui, who helped introduce anarchism to Japan and was executed for treason.

RM analyses the strikes, riots and fires of the garment workers of Bangladesh for libcom.org/news.

115 trade unionists were murdered for defending workers’ rights in 2005, while more than 1,600 were subjected to violent assaults and some 9,000 arrested, a report states. according to the ICFTU’s Annual Survey of Trade Union Rights violations, published today.

Bangladeshi authorities have said they will grant union rights to workers in the clothing industry in a bid to end protests that have left one man dead and scores injured and cost the industry an estimated $140 million.