Lourens Soroseb
Workers Rights

Interview- Lourens Soroseb

Lourens Soroseb is a Namibian former mining union leader and activist with Namibian Workers United who has faced severe political persecution, job victimization, and violent reprisals for organizing workers. Lourens is a trained firefighter who […]
Railway worker in the heat
Workers Rights

Too hot to think, too hot to work

Many European countries experienced extreme heat in May and June’s heatwaves, a third wave affects France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. 12 people died in one of the worst wildfires to hit the Spanish hamlet of Bédar. But what […]
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Mexico’s Zapatistas

The June 2026 monthly meeting of International Labour Network were pleased to welcome Peter Russet (cademic author, activist, and researcher based in Chiapas, Mexico) and Dr Lia Pinheiro Barbosa (activist and professor of sociology at […]
King Charles meeting members of the Afghanistan women's cricket team at Clarence House on 24 June.
Apartheid

Gender apartheid, global silence

Why Afghanistan must be banned from world cricket From child marriage decrees to bullets fired at protesters, the Taliban’s war on women grinds on unremarked, while Afghanistan’s men’s cricket team tours India and Canada. The […]