Asia Pacific Currents

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Arnel, spokesperson of the Labor Party of the Philippines, on the effects of the continuing War on Drugs is having on working class communities in the Philippines.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker LinksAsia Pacific Currents is produced at the studios of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Wol-san Liem, Director of International and Korean Peninsula Affairs, Korean Public Service and Transport Workers' Union (KPTU), on why truck drivers have also gone out on an indefinite strike in South Korea.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Shivani, a union organiser with Bigul Mazdoor Basta, about the ongoing strike, protests and hunger strike by Honda motor workers in New Delhi.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Kim Yong-Nam, union member from the Railways Union in South Korea, on the current mass strikes in South Korea and the issues that South Korean workers are facing.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Moniruzzaman Masum, Co-ordinator of the Comrade Rubel Workers Centre, on the recent fire at a packaging/foil factory that killed 34 workers. Also discussed was the state of workers organising in Bangladesh and prospect for the future.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Dian and Jumasi, labour activists in the garment industry in Indonesia, on gender and LGBTI issues facing workersAsia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Nambiath Vasudevan, President, New Trade Union Initiative - a federation of Indian trade unions, belonging to formal and informal sectors - and convenor, Trade Union Solidarity Committee, Mumbai, on the massive general strike in India on September 2nd that saw 180 million workers participate.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Manrico Moro, vice president AAWL, on how the global picketline concept can make international solidarity between workers much more powerful.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Joe Daher, actvist from Syria Freedom Forever, about the current situation in Syria, the state of the popular uprising, and the need for concrete solidarity to stop the war.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.First interview is with Steve Diston, organiser with the Electrical Trades Union of Victoria, on the continuing dispute at the CUB brewery against outsourcing and its international links and significance.Second interview is with Nick McLellan, journalist and long time activist, and the production of a documentary, titled Kirisimasi, on the continuing issue of radiation exposure and sickness among Fiji service personnel from the UK atomic tests.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links