Going it alone: report on the state of the workers' movement in China 2007-2008 China’s workers are taking to the streets in ever increasing numbers. Angered by management abuses, and emboldened by the passage of new labour legislation, they are staging strikes, roadblocks and protests to demand the payment of wages in arrears, better working conditions and even the right to set up their own trade union branches. In a new research report published 9 July, China Labour Bulletin looks at how the workers’ movement in China has developed over the last two years, how the government has responded to it, and why the official trade union has been unable or unwilling to play a positive role in it. available as a 57-page PDF. http://www.clb.org.hk/en/node/100507/ Alternatively, listen to CLB’s latest podcast introducing the report. http://www.clb.org.hk/en/podcasting_list ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AMERICAN WAR ON VIETNAM - INSUBORDINATION ! A US military officer reports on the increasing incidence of insubordination, desertion and rebellion in the US army over the course of the Vietnam War.

Iranian workers peacefully protested on May Day, but the government brutally attacked demonstrators and arrested more than 150.

Turkey for the first time in more than 30 years, trade unions were in Taksim Square, able to commemorate the massacre that took place there in 1977.

Vietnam government is trying to wipe out the independent trade union movement: reports Human Rights Watch. Trade unionists have been detained, placed under house arrest and imprisoned.

more from Iran. Iran- Statement Number 2 of the May Day Organizing Committee (1388)

Workers and freedom loving people! This is a follow up statement to the May Day Organizing Committee’s first report on the violent attack by police and intelligence forces at the May Day rally in Laleh Park, Tehran, May 1st, 2009, during which more than 150 workers and their families as well as activists of women’s and students’ movements were arrested.