agriculture

retail and food

Steven. — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:03:33 +0000

Nationwide general strike in India

Ed — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:01:14 +0000

“The strike was spontaneous with eight crore people participating in it. It is an expression of deep indignation of the masses against the pernicious economic and labour policies of the United Progressive Alliance government,” Gurudas Dasgupta, general secretary of the All-India Trade Union Congress, told reporters.

Guyanese sugar workers strike again

Ed — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:12:37 +0000

Labor Minister Manzoor Nadir said the government has ordered an end to the strike by about 17,000 workers, which he said could be "gravely injurious to the national interest" if it continued.

Guyana sugar workers strike

Ed — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:39:41 +0000

Workers at the La Bonne Intention (LBI), Enmore, Rose Hall and Wales sugar estates have ceased operations, even as wage negotiations between GUYSUCO and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers' Union (GAWU) take place.

Roundup of a month of strikes in Iran

Alex... — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:09:41 +0000

After three weeks of not receiving wages workers at the Alborz Elastics Factory began a strike on July 12. Management had reneged on a promise to pay a New Year's bonus to 400 workers, and has refused to pay into a loan fund for workers despite taking regular deductions from salaries.

Iranian sugar cane workers enter sixth week of strike

Alex... — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:51:43 +0000

The blockade of the factory is the latest in a series of actions undertaken by workers, who are continuing their strike in the face of brutal repression by security forces.

Workers at Haft-Tapeh started their strike on May 5 to demand immediate payment of wages, which had not been received for three months prior to the strike.

The Ecological Challenge: Three Revolutions are Necessary

Flint — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:35:25 +0000

The Ecological Challenge: Three Revolutions are Necessary
by Alternative Libertaire

A world food crisis; empty rice bowls and fat rats

Ret Marut — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:19:20 +0000

In the Chittagong hill tracts of rural south-eastern Bangladesh the bamboo is in bloom - and the local poor are hungry and facing famine. Bamboo blooms and seeds itself roughly once every 50 years; the rats love the seeds, and their high protein content causes them to breed four times faster than normal.

Railway, agricultural workers protest and walk out

Joseph K. — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:35:11 +0000

Agricultural workers strike & sit-in

Mozambique: wildcats and sabotage on the sugar cane plantations

catch — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:00:00 +0000

The workers are demanding a wage increase of over 100%, from 1,100 to 2,500 meticais (from US$46 to US$104), as well as protective clothing, overtime for working on Sundays and the right to a day off in the event of the death of a family member.