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Haiti's misery: good news for big business
other countries, such as Bangladesh, and Haitians in the slums would tell you that their most fervent ... wish is for jobs. A few dozen major shirt factories could be transformational for Haiti." ...
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Jan Lacey 1953-2005
to describe the factory conditions as Dickensian. She became involved in the union, which later ... United Labour Federation of Bangladesh. Alf Lacey, the respected Palm Island activist who coincidentally ...
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Australia: toxic exports outlaw
Recyclers Inc plant, 25 kilometres north of Manila, complain that pollution from the factory is destroying ... Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan and Vanuatu. Australia has dumped tin plate waste in Bangladesh, China, ...
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‘The only answer to organised corporate greed is organised labour’
a factory worker, a waitress and casual worker throughout her life. My dad was a lifelong public sector ... wealth of US$73 billion. The workers who make their products in Bangladesh are paid US$70 a month. The ...
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The timber with blood in its grain
asylum in Thailand. On the Bangladesh border, troops are raping and torturing the Rohingya Muslims, ... factories in the United States, Japan, Denmark and Italy. With 80% of the world's remaining teak found ... up oil rights, and Germany has continued supplying arms from a Rangoon factory. In 1990 Pepsi signed ...
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A World to Win: Everything for Everyone!
non-unionised and casual jobs, we are tiny cogs in the same system that causes factory collapses in Bangladesh ...
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Japan: Nuclear power on the ropes as m'vt grows
nuclear technologies to several developing countries, including India, Bangladesh and Jordan. Approval for ... reactors have enormous amounts of fixed capital invested in the factories designed to produce the reactors. ...
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Travels through ‘the other’ ― the world imperialism has made
infiltrate Bangladesh and start a war with India. Or it could be that al-Qaeda operatives simply talked big. ... separate states within Somalia. Piracy became the only source of income for many after foreign factory ...
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INDONESIA: Wahid surrenders sovereignty to IMF
factories increased their prices by 25%, house prices increase by around 15%. Taxi fares rose by as much as ... million people now live below the international poverty standard of US$2 per day, more than in Bangladesh ...
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Behind the food crisis: \'capitalism\'s historical failure'
price of rice and other staple foods. •In Bangladesh, more than 20,000 workers from textile factories in ... production has been completely wiped out. •In Bangladesh in November, one of the strongest cyclones in ...
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Ten new political albums worth a listen- January 2015
appropriate, since the album was inspired by the collapse of a sweatshop textiles factory in Bangladesh in ...
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PHILIPPINES: Left organising to oust Arroyo
caused public transport prices to rise steeply. "Meanwhile, unemployment rises while factories close ... and shift off to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The peso is weakening and is only being saved from collapse ...
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Earth hurtles towards 4 degrees warmer climate
year by just 1% after the 2008 financial crisis, during a brutal recession when factories and buildings ... projected effects of 4°C of warming. Global food production would plummet. In countries such as Bangladesh ...
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Chinese Revolution 60 years on: socialist revolution, capitalist restoration
Chinese government openly supporting right-wing forces in struggles in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Sudan. It ... the displacement of peasants from the land and workers retrenched from state-owned factories. They are ...
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South Africa: business pushes labour accord
in Indonesia, Malaysia or Bangladesh are below South African workers'. They fail to point out, ... managers internationally earn between 2.5 and 3.5 times more than factory workers, while in South Africa ...
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Climate change: the eco-socialist solution
sufficient water to live in the summer? What happens when Bangladesh is covered by rising sea levels and 200 ... determined by its ability to reproduce itself. Through creating monocultures, not only of crops or factory ... feedlots of factory-farmed cattle. It exhausts its mines to provide the nutrients lost in grain production. ...