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Protest marchers with megaphone. Image credit: Clay Banks/Unsplash
Protests have changed and so have protest songs
Penney Kome | In the 21st century protest songs offer music to live by, if not to march to.
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Chilean protests in 2019. Image: Jorge Morales Piderit/Wikimedia Commons
Canada's role in the austerity and uprising in Chile
Brent Patterson | What are the Canadian links to the social uprising in Chile that has claimed at least 18 lives over the past seven days?
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Demonstration against proposed extradition bill, Hong Kong, June 2019. Image: etan liam/Flickr
Massive protests shake up politics in Hong Kong
Piergiorgio Moro, Jiselle Hanna | The question of the relationship between Hong Kong and the Chinese government is not clear and a proposed extradition bill saw the biggest demonstration ever in Hong Kong.
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Massive truck drivers strike shakes Iranian government
Massive truck drivers strike shakes Iranian government
Piergiorgio Moro | The working class in Iran is facing increasingly desperate economic and political situation. In response, demonstrations and protests are increasing.
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Workers go on the offensive in South Korea
Piergiorgio Moro | Even though the workers' movement in South Korea was central in bringing down the corrupt Park Geun-hye government, the offensive against workers, the wages and conditions, have not let up.
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Pro refugee demonstration in Melbourne
The struggle for refugee rights in Australia continues
Piergiorgio Moro, Jiselle Hanna | A conversation with Umesh Perinpanayagam from the Tamil Refugee Council about the situation for Tamil refugees in Australia.
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Students mobilize for gun control on March 15, 2018 in NYC. Image: Working Families Party/Flickr
Has the U.S. remembered that politics is more than going to the polls?
Rick Salutin | The U.S. has seen a return to marches, protest, chants and strikes -- necessary acts that are also fun, writes Rick Salutin.
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Iranian workers' mass protests undermine government's authority
Piergiorgio Moro | An in-depth look at the recent mass protests in Iran and their significance, and labour updates from across the Asia-Pacific region.
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Demonetization, economic reforms and workers protests in India
Piergiorgio Moro & Jiselle Hanna | The demonetization program of the Modi Government in India is emblematic of the cuts that workers under his government are been forced to make
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Pro refugee demonstration in Melbourne, Australia in 2013. Image: Takver/flickr
Fight against Australia's inhumane refugee policies continue
Jiselle Hanna | The situation on Manus Island continues to deteriorate for the refugees abandoned there, but actions in support of them are taking place all over Australia
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Opposition to war in the Korean Peninsula grows
Jiselle Hanna, Piergiorgio Moro | Koreans still have a vivid history of the last war in the 1950s. Workers are at the forefront of the efforts to stop another conflict breaking out.
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Fresh arrests hit human right activists in Hong Kong
Piergiorgio Moro, Jiselle Hanna | The so called umbrella protest movement in Hong Kong in 2014 was unprecedented. The latest arrests shows that the Hong Kong government is still trying to suppress it.