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On 9 July, India witnessed one of the largest general strikes in world history, called by a joint platform of ten central trade unions, allied farmers’ groups, and student organisations, a watershed moment that reaffirmed the power of collective action.
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A Critical History of Strikes in India
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' ...
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Asian Labour School is open for registration for the Oct-Dec 2025 semester, featuring four courses: Labour, Power and Strategies, Writing Worker Stories: Movement-Centered Labour Journalism, Labour’s Polycrisis & Worker Cooperatives: Can Cooperating Transform How We Work Together?
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Asian Labour School
for workers, organisers and students
https://labourschool.org
3 months ago
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See some of you in Tokyo soon!
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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 organising committee came together and created the East Asia LaborFest.
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A Festival of East Asia Labour Movements
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...
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To understand the uprising and crisis in Indonesia, here is our selection of articles from ALR:
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The Anatomy of Indonesia’s Uprising
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...
https://labourreview.org/indonesias-uprising/
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Long-Haul Magazine
4 months ago
Kevin Lin, editor of
@asianlabour.bsky.social
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Labour’s Polycrisis
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...
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Reimagining Labour Power in the Digital Society
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...
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Against the Platform
In merely a decade, the rise of platforms in Asia has profoundly transformed the lives of millions of workers.
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Regime of Temporary Migrant Labour and Racialised Capitalism in Taiwan
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
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Spotted in Bangkok
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How are our labor struggles in East Asia connected by our histories? To what extent do we – in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan – share similar aspirations and goals? How should we reflect on our experiences of labor organizing and movement building?
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Our Shared Struggles: An East Asia Labor Exhibition & Exchange
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...
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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 committed to building something new.
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Creating Cracks as Movement Building
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 ...
https://labourreview.org/cracks/
8 months ago
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The Labor Radio Podcast Network
about 1 year ago
Kevin and Kiang launch a new series of the @asianlabour.bsky.social Review's Continent of Resistance #podcast that examines the wave of labor strikes across Asia in the late 2000s and early 2010s at
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Deep Organising is the Path Forward
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...
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