Actuellement, 29 dirigeants et militants syndicaux purgent des peines dans les prisons biélorusses
« Olga est une personne absolument brillante et pure qui voulait la justice », c'est ce que disent ses collègues d'Olga Britikova de Novopolotsk, la dirigeante du syndicat indépendant.
Son histoire dramatique a commencé en août 2020. Olga, qui dirigeait le département des ventes de produits pétroliers chez Naftan, et a ensuite rencontré la direction de l'entreprise car elle a fait part des (…)

Dozens of organisations united in the Indonesian Women's Alliance (API) took to the streets to commemorate International Workers' Day on Thursday, 1 May 2025. The theme of this action was “Reject the Government's False Solutions, Achieve Real Welfare for Workers, Women, and the People.” The demonstration, which took place in front of the Parliament Building at 8 o'clock in the morning, highlighted the government's failure to address the employment crisis and defend the rights of ordinary (…)

What Indonesia's maintrade unions did by centring this year's May Day action as a platform for President Prabowo was wrong, and a betrayal of the workers themselves. Distorting May Day as a momentum of resistance into a day for workers to dig their own graves.
Sketch by Henk Ngantung of May Day 1951 in Gambir area of Central Jakarta (KBR)
May Day or Labour Day for us, the organisations that are members of GEBRAK, is a day of momentum for the workers' struggle, we must always promote (…)

La lutte contre l'oligarchie, l'extrême droite et les gouvernements du centre qui leur ont ouvert les portes a dominé les discours lors du premier meeting du Bloc, en présence d'eurodéputées de Podemos, de la France Insoumise et de l'Alliance de Gauche finlandaise.
Catarina Martins (Bloco PT), Manon Aubry (France Insoumise) Mariana Mortágua (Bloco PT ), Li Andersson (Alliance de Gauche FI) et Irene Montero (Podemos ES
Dans une salle comble à l'Incrível Almadense, le meeting d'ouverture (…)

What preceded the establishment of trade unions in the Czech lands? An interview with historian Jakub Raška about the beginnings of the labor and trade union movement.
First Edition of the Communist 'Red Pravda", 1920
The establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918 meant, among other things, a break with the previous repressive authoritarian policy of the Habsburg monarchy and greater democratization of society. This also meant a strengthening of the role of trade unions, greater rights (…)