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1. International news briefs

   strike Protesting factory workers barricaded road and rail links between the Bangladesh capital Dhaka and ... struggle for the right of the Tibetan people to self-determination from Chinese rule. Bangladesh workers ...

2. Corporate greed is killing workers

   Bangladesh, during working hours on April 24. The official death toll stands at 1129. However, workers’ rights ... garment factories — businesses which in total employed more than 5000 workers across the eight levels of ... garment factory workers were forced to return to work the next day under threat of their pay being docked ...

3. On the box

   Third World, particularly Bangladesh. SBS, Friday, March 2, 8.30pm. Vladimir Mayakovsky — The life and ... fashion brand Gap and sports icon Nike have been using a factory in Cambodia which breaks their ...

4. Rana Plaza murders will not be forgotten

   on the ground floor obeyed the advice, but the owners of the garment factory spread across the upper ... of life and adequate health and safety provisions. This T-shirt made in Bangladesh retails in Bourke ... garment and footwear industry still depends on the super-exploitation of workers in Bangladesh and other ...

5. 10 new albums from artists who know Black Lives Matter

   coronavirus pandemic reached Bangladesh, a worker-owned factory there that makes "No Sweat" ...

6. Scandinavia’s covert imperialist role

   Bangladesh to cover the cost of the factory, the workers, the suppliers and the government. The remaining ... workers in impoverished nations such as Bangladesh. As John Smith points out in his book Imperialism in ... underpays workers in impoverished nations such as Bangladesh World ...

7. Malaysian socialist: COVID-19 means we cannot go back to business as normal

   MYR1600. To put this into perspective, the minimum wage in Malaysia is MYR1200 and median factory wage is ... Bazar in Bangladesh, where the 700,000 Rohingya refugees living in camps face a real problem if COVID-19 ...

8. Indian campaign against child labour

   occupations are moved to newer depths of poverty. For instance, there is evidence in Bangladesh of children ... who have done carpet weaving or worked in garment factories who have moved to prostitution or farm ...

9. Philippines: Urban poor fight for their land (with photos)

   factories, closed and partially demolished factories, urban poor communities, demolished urban poor ... financial crisis of 1998, the same factors have led to factories relocating, in some cases to the ... neighbouring provinces of Cavite and Laguna but more often to China, Cambodia and Bangladesh. The workforce in ...

10. Microcredit, microresults

    As founder of the widely acclaimed Grameen Bank, the Bangladesh bank that lends to poor rural women, ... borrowed money. In the Grameen model, "landless women in Bangladesh, the poorest of the poor" are ... leadership skills, mediation, lobbying and project assistance. The Bangladesh Rural Action Committee provides ...

11. May Day: World protests target capitalist austerity

    conditions, especially for those working in garment factories. Bangladesh is the world's second biggest ... In the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka, thousands of workers took to the streets to demand better working ...

12. Socialist Alliance: Long live May Day! Unite to fight back!

    workers in Bangladesh who were recently killed in the collapse of their factory. We hold the big branded ... http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/53981 Bangladesh: Huge May Day march mourns dead, demands justice http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/53980 ...

13. Consumers not to blame for sweatshop wages

    Bangladesh. “So far”, he said, “consumers have just not been willing to accept higher costs”. Li & Fung is ... clothing stitched in Bangladesh. “This isn’t just the fault of companies who supply cheap clothes,” ... many assembly workers and creating safe conditions in their factories, all at no extra cost to ...

14. Workers mark May Day globally

    protest against low wages and the use of scab workers. “And in Bangladesh, many thousands of garment ... workers used the day to demand punishment for negligent factory owners and compensation for their victims ...

15. Global inequality: Capitalism is to blame

    in garment factories in Bangladesh combined. But to survive, Capitalism also relies on its ability to ... production to countries such as Bangladesh, while their corporate headquarters are maintained elsewhere — in ...

16. How globalised super-exploitation makes modern capitalism tick

    factory in Rana Plaza, Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1133 workers and injuring 2500 others. This ... violence to bring more people into its factories. Workers died like flies and there was a real concern that ... there might not be a replacement generation of toilers for the factories. However, in its mature phase, ...

17. India: Auto workers fight for union rights, freedom for activists

    Workers & unions Economy Immanuel Ness Suzanne Adely 976 India August 5, 2013 If Bangladesh ... represents the worst of exploitation in clothing factories, India is home to the most rapacious conditions ... has created a militarised perimeter around the factory. Two thousand people showed up for a rally on ...

18. What if Tony Abbott spoke the truth?

    Democracy Peter Boyle 935 Australia August 24, 2012 Five words sum up federal opposition leader Tony Abbott's response to some sharp questions put to him by journalist Leigh Sales in the August 22 episode of ABC TV's 7.30: Liar, liar, pants on f ...

19. Asbestos — not here, not anywhere

    limit. A former worker and victim of asbestos disclosed that workers often slept in the factory where ... they worked and where the asbestos dust was dense. Factory owners do not tell workers that asbestos ... could kill and there was little community and public awareness on the issue. Some factories carried out ...

20. Squeezing the Third World

    Philippines, are expected to decline steeply as factories close and workers are sent home. According to ... the Philippines, $17.2 billion; and Bangladesh, $6.6 billion; according to the IOM's World ... told AFP when asked what she earned from her stint at the ASE semiconductor factory near Taipei, which ...

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