Using Propaganda to Stop China’s Strikes

‘ Government and industry search for ways to calm the country’s factory hands Less than two years after the worker suicides at electronics giant Foxconn and a strike at Honda (HMC) suppliers in Guangdong province, labor troubles are again roiling China. On Nov. 17 around 7,000 workers at a Taiwanese-owned New Balance supplier in Dongguan protested plans to [...]

The Irish Suffer Austerity in Silence

Ireland is pounded by budget cuts that will amount to 20 percent of GDP, but protests are rare and with none of the violence seen in Greece or Italy In a village in County Cork in southern Ireland, about 50 farmers and business people meet after Mass on Sundays to protest against taxpayer bailouts of [...]