A group of researchers tracking every strike in America for the past five years write that after a promising increase in strikes and number of strikers in 2022 and 2023, strike activity dropped off si...

for workers, organisers and students

for workers, organisers and students

On 9 July 2025, India witnessed one of the largest general strikes in world history. A Bharat Bandh ("nationwide shutdown") was called by a joint platform of ten central trade unions, allied farmers' ...

for workers, organisers and students

Editor's Note: How do we create an open space for meeting, learning, reflection, exchange and joy in cross-border labour movement solidarity building? Over the past ten months, an international organi...

Since late August 2025, Indonesia has been gripped by a wave of spontaneous and violent protests that shook the foundations of the new Prabowo-Gibran administration. What began as online discontent sp...

A concept that takes on a life of its own often says a lot about the material conditions and structure of feeling of the time. Polycrisis, recently re-popularised by the historian Adam Tooze, was firs...

Where labour once found relative cohesion in large factories or traditional offices, the rise of digital and platform-based labour adds further fragmentation, governed by inscrutable algorithms and hi...

In merely a decade, the rise of platforms in Asia has profoundly transformed the lives of millions of workers.

Taiwan’s regime of temporary migrant labour was formalised as a kind of “guest worker” program in 1992, and it has been an important column of Taiwan’s racialised capitalism since

SAVE THE DATE Our Shared Struggles An East Asia Labor Exhibition & Exchange October 3-11, 2025 Tokyo, Japan at Sophia University How are our labor struggles in East Asia connected by our histories? To...

In this extended interview, Kim Ji-su, the president of the South Korean Rider Union, reflects on how real change often begins in the cracks—among the most precarious, the most excluded, and the most ...

In much of Asia, gig work is highly individualised, and algorithmic management fragments the labour process, diminishing workers' structural power. Couriers and riders often work gruelling hours, driv...