Asia Pacific Currents

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 Melbourne, Australia.

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, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Austral...

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 Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Aus...

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.

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 studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

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 Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Wo...

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 hosted by Green Left Weekly and Socialist Allian...

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.

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 was delivered at the ecosocialism conference hos...

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 keynote address was delivered at the ecosocialism confe...

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 Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Ra...

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 Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourn...

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 Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in M...

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 Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, A...

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 a space to discuss what progressive solidarity wi...

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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 from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by...

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 campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is prod...

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.

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 Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio i...

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. We broadcast a speech by Mohammed El Kurd, a Palestinian poet and activist. He addressed the United Nations on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in May 2021.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...

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. We interview Taslima Akhter, and activist and photojournalist; and Rupali Akter, a victim survivor of the collapse of Rana Plaza, about the 10 year anniversary of the collapse of Rana Plaza. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in th...

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. We interview Moshrefa Mishu, a political activist and anthropologist from Bangladesh about the anniversary of the collapse of Rana Plaza. 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.

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. We interview Tephalin Ou, President of the Cambodian Food and Service Workers Federation in Cambodia about the arrest of the Naga World Union Leaders. 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, Aust...

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. We interview Reem Yunis, a Palestinian and socialist about the political crisis in Israel that saw a general strike called by the Histadrut. Specifically we discuss whether this is significant at all for the struggle for Palestinian land justice and sovereignty. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the A...