On this day, 4 May 1978, Bangladeshi garment worker Altab Ali was murdered in a racially motivated attack while walking home from work in East London. 10 days later, thousands of anti-racists marched across London, taking the coffin of Altab Ali to Downing Street. Rest in peace.

Over 500 of you have told brands to step up and end the dispute. Quickest way? Putting 💵 on the table. Send an email now: labourbehindthelabel.org/ms-superdry-su…

🚨PECKHAM ROAD, SE15 5EU🚨

TSG and Riot Police now attempting to kettle people who are stopping relocations to Bibby Stockholm

Please get down there if you can!

🇵🇸 Solidarity and Labour Organising: An Interview with Workers In Palestine

🛠️ Following the recent upsurge in the Palestine solidarity movement, we interviewed Riya Al'Sanah, a Palestinian organiser with Workers in Palestine.

Read now online 👇

notesfrombelow.org/article/solida…

URGENT: IF YOU CAN, MAKE YOUR WAY TO BRAND STREET G51. A mum with 3 kids detained to be moved and deported. Absolute hell out there.

Peckham high road is now completely blocked by people resisting the removal as well as resisting the arrests made by police.

There are many many more of us than the police. They’re not going anywhere.

Come and join us and we can stop them together.

Celebrating Prof Nik Hammer's Inaugural Lecture 'Labour and human rights in global value chains’ @ the University of Leicester's School of Business👏🏾👏🏾🥳

#MayDay solidarity from one end of the supply chain to the other!
Striking garment workers in Sri Lanka sent solidarity to GMB Union striking in the UK.

Stand with Sumithra workers: tell Superdry Dillard's TOM TAILOR Asda M&S
to support their demands!

Mayday events begin in Ramallah, Palestine.

Muhammad Aruri, head of legal affairs for the General Union of Palestinian Workers, addresses the crowd. He calls on the international trade union movement to stand in solidarity with Palestinian workers.

On #LabourDay , we stand in solidarity with the Sumithra workers in Sri Lanka who embody the real meaning of international solidarity. After a 75 day strike, while their factory made Asda clothes, they didn't hesitate a moment to express solidarity with ASDA workers in the UK. 🧵

Fantastic action by Workers for a Free Palestine shutting down Department for Business and Trade today 💪🏽

Solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 and with everyone fighting against the ongoing genocide

& thank you for standing with our members who want no part in it ✊

#StopArmingIsrael

PCS Union at DBT (ex-DIT) PCS Union

BANGLADESH: Garment workers in Bangladesh are paid poverty wages and face innumerable obstacles including harassment, intimidation, and violence, as well as legal hurdles when attempting to voice their demands for justice, decent wages, adequate safeguards, and working…

As our Sri Lankan partner, @Dabindu Collective, says,
'We celebrate the multifaceted nature of women's labour, persisting day and night, running our economies as we know them.'

Power to the working women of the world!✊

Looking to speak to people who have memories of the 1974 Imperial Typewriters' Strike in Leicester. If that's you or someone you know, please do get in touch.

DMs open or email in bio. #Journorequest

1⃣2⃣1⃣ garment workers on strike at the Sumithra Hasalaka factory in Sri Lanka, fighting for fair wages, share a message of solidarity to retail workers striking at the other end of Asda's supply chain in the UK 👇

#InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Imperial Typewriters strike in Leicester. The strike mainly involved South Asian women who faced discrimination in the workplace.

They lacked union support and their picket lines were attacked by the National Front but they fought back.🧵

1/3 📢💥 BREAKING: UK's biggest arms dealer SHUTDOWN 💥

👉 Hundreds of Welsh activists & allies have SHUTDOWN BAE's BIGGEST UK site near Pontypool, Wales for it's complicity in arming Israel's genocide.

Campaigners in London are protesting outside the Department for Business and Trade calling on the UK government to halt arms supplies to Israel.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/bmvrqq

Civil servants in the Trade Department have requested to cease work immediately on arms export licences to Israel and their union, PCS, is considering bringing legal action to prevent members from being forced to carry out unlawful acts which contribute to war crimes in Gaza.

Around the 🌍 workers & their trade unions are mobilising on #InternationalWorkersDay to end their governments’ complicity in Israel’s plausible genocide of over 34,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Join their call for an end to trade deals with Israel: secure.waronwant.org/page/145898/ac…