Interview with Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress
When Bea Bruske was a teenager she found herself walking a picket line for many months -- a strike prolonged unnecessarily because her employer had hired scabs. Today she's the President of the Canad...
4 Apr 202413min
Interview with Ahmad Badawy, Egyptian trade union activist
The textile workers at Egypt's state-owned Mahalla factory have a history they can be proud of -- their strikes helped to bring down the Mubarak dictatorship. In March 2024, when the Egyptian governm...
3 Apr 202411min
Interview with Sally McManus, Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)
Australia under its new Labor government is seeing a huge revival of the trade union movement with new "closing loopholes" laws that strengthen workers' rights. At the centre of the struggle is Sally...
27 Mars 20248min
Interview with Nick MacWilliam from Justice for Colombia
Colombia used to be described as the most dangerous place on earth to be a trade unionist. Sadly, that is still the case. But as Nick MacWilliam from the UK-based, trade union-backed Justice for Col...
20 Mars 202414min
Interview with Kazem Nik-Khah - about workers in Iran
Kazem is in charge of international relations at Free Them Now, which was set up in 2005 to build international support for jailed workers in Iran. News from Free Them Now can be found on LabourStart...
13 Mars 202411min
Interview with Marc Belanger - Radio Labour
Marc Belanger was doing labour education and union organising online back in the 1980s. That's NOT a typo -- he established SoliNet (Solidarity Network) for Canada's largest union, CUPE, nearly 40 ye...
5 Mars 202417min
Interview with Carolina Dantas – Project Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean Building and Wood Worker’s International (BWI)
We spoke with Carolina about the situation in Panama where the government has been attacking the construction workers' union, accusing the union leaders of 'terrorism' and closing off their bank accou...
28 Feb 20248min
Interview with Olesia Briazgunova, International Officer of KVPU in Ukraine
We interviewed Olesia about the situation of Ukraine's workers and their unions. While she was speaking to us in Kyiv, she reported that a Russian missile attack was taking place at the same time. O...
21 Feb 20249min
