What did surprise me was that they rammed it through the Lower House of Parliament the week following their initial failure, before parliamentary break. You have to give it to them: the bastards know what they stand for. We could learn that from them.
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So, we workers will have to fight the disciple and his teacher. Email from the Australian Unions Team,
The Philippines is ranked as among the ten worst countries in the world for workers’ rights. Trade unionists are routinely arrested, union offices raided, and unionists have even been killed. The latest police crackdown targeting unions[1] and human rights defenders occurs amid a broader climate of government repression in the Philippines.
Through the process of ‘red tagging’, unions are labelled as fronts of an underground armed struggle movement and the arrested activists are routinely alleged to be in possession of firearms and ammunitions planted by state officers to justify fabricated charges.
We are calling actions to coincide with Human Rights Day to stand in solidarity with unionists in the Philippines and demand that President Duterte stop the killing, attacks and red-tagging of unionists and activists. Will you join us?
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As our land burns and our cities choke with the smoke, as our rivers dry out and life turns into ashes and the Sun itself reddens, we also need to fight against the same enemy, now for action on climate change.
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We are fighting against the Beast, which looks uncannily like its mythological counterpart. It’s called class war, folks.
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