The price of power; cops gun down strikers in Bangladesh Police murders during a recent strike at a new Bangladeshi power plant and its context within…
Wage battles erupt in the Bangladeshi garment sector – and unions can’t contain them The past two weeks have seen mass walkouts and wildcat strikes by thousands of garment workers…
Tea workers: Poorest of the poor, in Bangladesh On May 20, 1921, around 30,000 tea labourers left their workplace in Sylhet region and started walking towards Chandpur Meghna Ghat. When they…
Sylhet tea-garden workers strike for higher wages Workers of twenty two tea gardens in Sylhet district today went on a work abstention demanding 16 months’ unpaid wages and a wage increase.
The government's satisfaction, the hardships of the farmers! The election manifesto in the current government, 'food for everyone' will be ensured, By 2013,…
Life and struggle of women's tea workers in Bangladesh Talking about the life and struggle of the women workers of Bangladesh, discussion of the current…
The workers demand the minimum wages to be sixteen thousand taka Garment Workers 'Rights Movement urges Ashulia to stop' suppression of oppression 'on garment…
Environmental movement: save Sundarbans, Bangladesh For the first time in history, Bangladesh is experiencing a mass movement to save a forest – the…
Smashing H&M in South Africa: not the first attack on the garment supply chain (and not the last either!) Hand-wringing over the trashing of a few H&M branches in South Africa ignores the…
Behind the camouflage; a new strike wave in the Bangladeshi garment sector Following a period of relative quiet after the 2013 Rana Plaza factory disaster, new struggles…
The binds that tie: unions, ‘solidarity’, civil society and foreign policy in Bangladesh A look at the new unions emerging as part of the reforms of the garment industry –…
