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Stop the war - Lift the siege on Gaza
- Free all Palestinian prisoners
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 Globally
workers are prevented from organising by capitalists and governments. By
keeping us unorganised, they can pay us less, make us work harder, and make
more profits for themselves. We face fines, dismissals, beatings, rapes and
even murder. Many labour activists end up in jail because of their
organising activities.
In early July, AAWL hosted an online meeting with international union
representatives. This meeting decided to have a Global Day/Week to ‘Free
our comrades and stop trade union repression’ centred on the 16th of
November. We are now hosting another international meeting to discuss how
to build actions for this date.
Wednesday 6 August
6pm Evatt Rm
Trades Hall, Sth Carlton
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 Since being
awarded the 2022 Football World Cup, the West Asian country of Qatar has
been in the spotlight over its treatment
of migrant workers. This month, the government of Qatar did
not support an international agreement against forced labour, with
some other neighbouring countries also voting against the treaty. New
reports coming out from Qatar expose the vulnerable
living conditions for workers which leave some of them homeless.
The issue is that companies are making huge profits via the super
exploitation of these migrant workers.
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 Over the last couple of
months, we
have reported on the hard struggle that the NXP semiconductor
workers are waging against this global company’s union busting tactics. The
workers are still strong and are determined to win.
At another global company, this time the seafood producer Citra Mina,
workers that have been able to form a union to combat
poor Occupational Health and Safety conditions and low pay, have been
systematically fired by the company. The campaign to get justice for
the Citra Mina workers
continues.
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 The coal
mining industry is one of the most dangerous industries in China
for workers, with thousands killed each year. In conjunction with a
downturn in the industry, workers in coal mines all around China have
started to take more
industrial action in support of better conditions and wages.
Industrial struggles by Chinese workers have become bigger and more
organised recently. A recent incident where Zhou Jianrong, killed
herself due to unbearable working conditions, led to a series
of protests that highlighted workers willingness to act against
weak official union and local government collusion.
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 In the
profit based system of capitalism workers are made to work too hard and in
unsafe conditions, resulting in the death
and injury of hundreds of thousands of workers a year. The Rana
Plaza collapse of just over a year was one of the disasters that
spurred activists
and researchers to try and map the state of Occupational Health
and Safety for workers around the world. The research is ongoing and
the Global Worker Watch is
the result of this ongoing mapping exercise to highlight the brutality of
our economic system.
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The
military assault by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza is in its fourth
week. The 
Around 2,000 workers from
the Tuba group of companies began an 
The explosion at the 