Contract oil workers in the south of Iran are once again on strike!

Contract oil workers in the south of Iran are once again on strike, 66 days into the nationwide rebellion. Workers at two South Pars Gas Complexes and at the Masjid Suleiman Petrochemical plant are the first reported on strike. I’m getting updates from comrades on the ground that workers across the manufacturing sector – in the pipe and steel works – and now the motor workers are also on strike. The most militant workers are concentrated in the south and south-west, particularly in and around Khuzestan. But it is clear…

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 HAWAI’IAN SUGAR WORKERS

◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇ From the time the US came to dominate Hawai’i, the sugar industry dominated the islands’ economy. By 1900, the economy was controlled by the “Big Five” sugar companies: Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, C. Brown & Co., American Factors (now Amfac), and Theo J. Davies & Co. There had been prior efforts to unionize. In 1889, Japanese union organizers were lynched. Workers went on strike in 1909 and again in 1920, winning some gains, but leaving the fundamental structure intact. In 1946, sugar workers began to organize through…

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අනන්ත දැනුමින් සපිරි වනාන්තර විශ්වකෝෂය: තුල්සි ගෞඩා

Originally published on https://roar.media/sinhala/arya/health-lifestyle/tulsi-gowda-encyclopedia-of-the-forest Manoj Siriwardana 1944 වසරේදී ඉන්දියාවේ කර්නාටක ප්‍රාන්තයට අයත් උතුරු කණ්ණඩ දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ, අංකෝලා තාලුකයේ, හොනල්ලි ගම්මානයේ හලක්කි ගෝත්‍රික මවකට දැරියක් උපදිනවා. මාපියන් ඈ “තුල්සි ගෞඩා” ලෙස නම් තබයි. තුල්සි ගෞඩා කිසි දිනක විධිමත් අධ්‍යාපනයක් ලබා නොගත්ත ද, අද වන විට ලොව පුරා ප්‍රචලිත ව ඇත්තේ ශාක හා ඖෂධ පැළෑටි පිළිබඳ ‘අනන්ත දැනුමක්’ ඇති ‘වනාන්තර විශ්වකෝෂය’ ලෙසිනි. රාෂ්ට්‍රපති භවන්හි දී 2020 වසර සඳහා පැවති “පද්ම සම්මාන” උත්සවයේදී ඈ “පද්ම ශ්‍රී” සම්මානයෙන් පිදුම් ලැබුවා ය. පාවහන් නොමැතිව, සාම්ප්‍රදායික ඇඳුමින් සැරසී සිටි තුල්සි ගෞඩා, ජනාධිපති රාම් නාත් කෝවින්ද් අතින් ඉන්දියාවේ…

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From burning houses to burning bodies: Anti-Muslim violence, discrimination and harassment in Sri Lanka

Srilankans must rebuild their image by eliminating discriminative policies. Report: From burning houses to burning bodies: Anti-Muslim violence, discrimination and harassment in Sri Lanka EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Sri Lanka’s past has been sullied by violence against minorities, committed in the name of religious and ethnic nationalism. Muslim and Tamil minorities in particular have faced repeated incidents of violence since the 1880s. In this report, Amnesty International documents the attacks against the Muslim minority in Sri Lanka over the years, focusing on emblematic moments in history that have set the stage for…

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