Stories and issues from the Asia Pacific region with a labour and grassroots perspective. Regular interviews with activists from countries in the Asia Pacific region. Produced by Australia-Asia Worker Links.
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Go behind the gates of America’s largest port complex for an intimate and unflinching look at the lives riding the waves of supply and demand.
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INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS BELOW! Click on "Show More" A podcast about the history, strategy, and significance of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from the Center for Work & Democracy at Arizona State University and Jacobin Magazine. All clip, song, and quote references, as well as links to individual interview transcripts, at soundcloud.com/organizetheunorganized. Interview with Jeremy Brecher: https://jacobin.com/2024/01/organize-the-unorganized-congress-of-industrial-organizations-labo ...
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Narges, Aida and Afifa, three Temporary Protection Visa holders in limbo as a part of the Legacy CaseloadAsia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.Alnem Pretencio from Partido Mangagawa, updates us on the recent elections at Philippines Airlines Employees Association.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.Nic MClellan, independent expert on the Asia Pacific region joins us to provide an update on the unrest in New Caledonia in the context of a deepening crisis in France.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australi…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.By Jiselle Hanna and James Barry
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.3CR Thursday Breakfast's Priya Kunjan interviews Michelle Fahy, independent journalist, about Australia's place in the global supply chain of Lockheed Martin's F35 combat aircraft, which the Israeli army is using to bomb Gaza.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaign…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.We hear a speech delivered by Isis Gur from Combatants For Peace, which is made up of former Israeli Defence Force combatants, and former Palestinian combatants, who now work together for peace in Palestine.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pac…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.Jacob Grech, AAWL's Peace is Union Business campaign co-ordinator about the historic release of Julian Assange.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbou…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.We listen to the speech delivered by Reem Yunis, Palestinian socialist and activist, at the Docks Rally on 25 May.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Mel…
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Radiothon!By Jiselle Hanna and Kieran Bennett
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.Apolinar Dong Tolentino, Asia Region co-ordinator for the Building Workers International, about regional issues in the construction industry.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.We hear a speech delivered by Mai Saif, Palestinian activist, delivered at the 25 May Docks Rally.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australi…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.Interview with Abbas Saidavi from Voice of Revolution, Iran, about the death of President Raisi in a helicopter accident.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.Interview with Nic Mclellan about the current unrest in New Caledonia.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.May 1st May Day rally in Melbourne Australia - speeches include Cindy Makaboray from West Papua, and Abbas Sidavi from Voice of Revolution, Iran,Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.Erima Dall, rank n file member of the MUA, about union solidarity with Palestine and Trade Unionists for Palestine.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Me…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.Taslima Akhter from Garment Workers Solidarity in Bangladesh, about the current garment industry uprisings and their struggle for a minimum wage.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.An anonymous Armenian activist was interviewed by Priya Kunan of Thursday Breakfast, about the relationship between Armenian and Palestinian genocide.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Link…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.Veronica Koman was interviewed by Priya Kunan of Thursday Breakfast at 3CR, about human rights violations perpetrated in West Papua.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio o…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.An interview by Indian based solidarity organisation, Workers Unity with Dr Ashok Kumar of Birkbeck University, about Water Transport Workers Federation of India's refusal to load and unload weapons and armaments bound for Israel.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and camp…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.Joseph Daher, socialist and academic activist about Israeli attacks on Lebanon and the ongoing siege on Gaza.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourn…
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This final episode of Organize the Unorganized is devoted to key lessons of the CIO moment. All of the guests on this program were asked about this basic question, and we try to represent all of their answers on this episode. The negative lessons, points where guests were keen to note the differences between the 30s and the present moment, focused …
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.Kunta Sith, keynote speaker at the Myanmar People's summit, as a part of the ASEAN People's summit. This event was organised by APHEDA and the ACTU.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links,…
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Episode 8: Is There an Ending to the CIO?
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This penultimate episode of Organize the Unorganized concludes the story of the CIO. We cover first the communist purge in the late 1940s, as well as Operation Dixie, the failed campaign to organize the south. We then get to merger with the AFL in 1955, and the afterlife of the CIO in the Industrial Union Department and its contributions to the Civ…
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Alexia Fuentes from Anak Bayan, a Filipino youth organisation, speaks about Marcos Bong Bong Junior's visit to Australia, addressing the Australian Parliament, and about Australia hosting the ASEAN summit.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Li…
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The early period of the CIO could be said to have ended with the Little Steel strike in 1937, when the limits of the New Deal order were dramatically illustrated in the brutal repression and failure of the strike. But the CIO continued to grow through the 40s, and it was the war escalation that provided the context for it to do so. This episode wil…
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Episode 6: From the Docks to the Killing Floors
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https://jacobin.com/2024/05/organize-the-unorganized-cio-episode-6On this week's episode of Organize the Unorganized, we cover some of the key CIO unions not yet discussed in great detail, including the UE, ILWU, TWOC and PWOC. There were many other unions that formed the CIO - unions in oil, printing, transport, retail - but the four that we’re co…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.We listen to a speech delivered by AAWL and Socialist Alternative's Jerome Small, at the Free Palestine rally held in Melbourne Australia.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the st…
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https://jacobin.com/2024/05/organize-the-unorganized-cio-episode-5-little-steelThis episode is devoted to the Little Steel strike in the summer of 1937, a tragic failure for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and the CIO, and one that illustrated the limits of the New Deal order. It might appear excessive to devote an entire episode of the podc…
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https://jacobin.com/2024/04/cio-organize-podcast-left-unityHow was it that the CIO was finally able to make good on the decades-old dream of industrial unionism? In this episode, we outline four factors that were the keys to the CIO’s success. First, there was a political opportunity that the CIO took advantage of. Second, there were militant and d…
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https://jacobin.com/2024/04/cio-organize-podcast-sit-down-strikes/On the third episode of Organize the Unorganized, we examine the three initial major victories of the CIO in rubber, auto, and steel. We begin by recounting the story of the “first CIO strike” at the Goodyear complex in Akron, Ohio, a victorious strike that put the CIO on the map. We…
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https://jacobin.com/2024/04/cio-organize-podcast-hillman-lewisOn the second episode of Organized the Unorganized, we kick things off with an account of the institutional formation of the CIO, and then get to the organization’s key personalities. John L. Lewis, the founding president of and driving force behind the CIO, unsurprisingly gets a fair am…
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https://jacobin.com/2024/04/organize-cio-podcast-bridges-trucker-strikesThe first episode of Organize the Unorganized sets the stage for the story of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, first getting into the history of the organization from which it broke off, the American Federation of Labor, and then describing three developments that rais…
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There have been many moments of labor upsurge in America, including the influx of members into the Knights of Labor in 1886, the dramatic growth of unions during and in the immediate aftermath of World War I, and the great public sector unionism surge of the 1960s and 70s, but none matches the scale of the 1930s, when millions of workers were union…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.We speak with Junya Lek Yimprasert, founder of ACT4DEM - Action for Democracy on Thailand, about the recent machinations in Thai politics following the prevention of the Move Forward Party taking government.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pac…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.We hear the keynote address of Clifton D'Rozario of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation is a campaigner for Dalit rights in Karnataka state (India). He discusses the Modi Government's fascistic links and politics, and this keynote address was delivered at the ecosocialism conference…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.By Jiselle Hanna
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.We hear the keynote address of Nilüfer Koç, Executive Council member and spokesperson for the Commission on Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK). She discusses some of the new ideas inspiring the Kurdish-led feminist and green revolutionary movement, and this keynote address…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.We hear the keynote address of Ruchira Talukdar, about India's Modi Government and its threat to climate change, specifically in relation to the Hasdea Forest. Rachira is one of the Co-founders of Sapna South Asian Climate Solidarity, an Australian-based climate justice collective and this keynot…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.We interview Jacob Grech, AAWL campaign co-ordinator, anti-militarisation commentator and producer of 3CR's A Friday Rave, about the upcoming Talisman Sabre military games.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Aust…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.We interview Joon Shik Shin, a Korean trade union and peace activist, about the current Yoon government's attacks on the trade union movement in South Korea.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Work…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.We hear the keynote address of Alexia Fuentes, chairperson of Bayan Australia, about the ongoing campaign in the Philippines to stop red tagging of trade unionists.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia As…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.We interview Benjamin Velasco from Partido Mangagawa in the Philippines about the ongoing targetting of trade unionists, a practice known as Red Tagging.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker L…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.We hear from Jeonom kim from the People's solidarity for social progress in South Korea and Arora from New Bloom and Taiwan Stands With Ukraine. Every month the Global Network in Solidarity with Ukraine meets to exchange information about the activities of left-wing solidarity groups, and create …
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This week is our annual Radiothon show!!!By James, Jiselle & Pier
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.We interview Kivanc Eliacik, the international officer of DISK, the militant Turkish Labour Movement Federation. He talked to us about the recent election results in Turkey and what this means for the Turkish labour movement.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.We interview Thai activist, Junya Lek Yimprasert, who still remains in exile in Finland, about the unexpected victory of the Move Forward party in the Thai elections. Lek is the founder of ACT4DEM - Action for Democracy in Thailand.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and ca…
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News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.We interview Nasser Mashni, Palestinian activist and presenter of Palestine Remembered, about the 75 year commemoration of Al-Nakba, the Great Palestinian Catastrophe.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia…
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