Inside LabourStart

Since I last updated this blog, we’ve had a few bits of good news.

Turkey: Nearly all the trade union leaders whose release we have campaigned for are now released.  We have a wonderful statement of thanks from them, which we will shortly publicise widely.  This comes on the heels of our recent campaign in support of Turkish teachers at an Italian language school, which also contributed to a win.

Taiwan: For the first time in more than three months, we have been asked for help with a campaign. The campaign has just gone live and we are beginning translations and publicity today.  Here is the campaign — please share this widely.

Canada: We received a generous donation from the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) as well as our largest-ever donation from an individual.

Other campaigns: Just in the last two weeks, we have reached out to partners about campaigns in Serbia, Libya, Panama, Zimbabwe, Cambodia and more.  We expect one or more of those to go live.

News: In the first 23 days of July our volunteer correspondents posted 2,059 news stories to LabourStart —89 news stories per day, on average.

Podcasts: We are hoping to revive our regular broadcasts and have proposed interviews to several activists, tied into our campaigns and more.

Global Solidarity Conference: We are hoping to hold another Global Solidarity Conference in 2027 and are currently exploring options in Europe and North America.  More details once we have them.

Since this blog was last updated on 1 May 2026, we’ve been busy.  Here are some highlights:

Campaigns:

• We have two new campaigns coming very soon — one from Libya and one from Serbia.  More details soon.
• We launched a Georgia campaign in mid-May, but eventually suspended it after losing contact with the union there, which had done nothing to promote the campaign.
• We suggested a Bolivia campaign to two of the global union federations, but it didn’t happen. Neither one of them was interested.
• We suggested a Lithuanian truckers’ campaign to ETF, but they were not interested.
• We asked IndustriAll Europe about a campaign in support of striking workers at Tesla in Sweden; the local union seems not to be interested at the moment.  We wrote to them directly in late June and they promised to get back to us.
• We closed down three campaigns at the end of May — in Malaysia, Algeria and Turkey.  The last of these contributed to a big victory for the workers and their union.

Correspondents: We suggested to several people who wrote in that they might consider volunteering to be a correspondent.  We signed up one new correspondent from the UK.  And we sent a mass emailing to over 600 of our volunteer correspondents suggesting things they could do (including encouraging them to post).

Donations: PSI made a generous donation, as did BCGEU and UNIFOR in Canada.  We shared the good news from the Turkish teachers victory to several of our lists (including our donors, but not to our general English list) and raised a small amount of money.

Mailing list: We added 218 new subscribers, many of them for our Turkish list following the launch of our campaign in May.