Ahead of International Women’s Day, we speak with Menaha Kandasamy of the Ceylon Workers Red Flag Union in Sri Lanka.
Tea from Sri Lanka reaches cups around the world. But the workers behind it—most of them women—continue to face low wages, unsafe conditions, and the long shadow of a colonial plantation system.
In this episode, Menaha discusses the workers’ tribunal on plantation labour, the challenges of organizing in the estates, and why international solidarity still matters.
Pakistan India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, which met on Saturday evening [Feb 28, 2026], condemns the attack on Iran by the combined forces of the United States and the Netanyahu regime in Israel.
statements by CPI, CPM, CIMPL on the Israeli US war on Iran — Feb 28, 2026
January 30, 2026
The New Trade Union Initiative finds the statements of the Chief Justice of India, Mr. Justice Surya Kant, while hearing the case, on the absence of statutory wages and regulation of employment conditions for a statutory minimum wage, filed by our affiliate Penn Thozhilalar Sangam and other unions vs. the Union of India in Writ Petition (Civil) 26 of 2026, regrettable.
February 20, 2026
The National Federation of Indian Women strongly condemns the reported penal code introduced in Afghanistan under the Taliban rule and authority of Hibatullah Akhundzada, and stands in solidarity with the Afghan women in their struggle for justice.
The new code is the “legalising” of domestic violence - permitting husbands to physically punish wives and children so long as there are no “broken bones or open wounds”. This represents a grave assault on the fundamental (…)
