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Finnish workers continue struggle begun in September against austerity and attacks on right to strike involving tens of thousands despite union attempts to limit action; strikes and protests by Iranian workers over cost-of-living crisis continue into the New Year, with steel and oil workers striking over lack of employment rights; protests by Libyan oil workers and local residents at two oilfields shut down production to demand a hospital, jobs for youth and refinery to end petrol and gas shortage

Around 15,000 civil servants in Romania in wildcat strike against austerity cuts attacking jobs and pay; protests continue across Iran against cost-of-living crisis in opposition to authoritarian regime by telecom retirees, Tehran metro workers and contract teachers; South African metal workers on indefinite strike over pay and conditions attacked and arrested while picketing Ekapa Diamond Mine

Workers including GPs, porters and cleaners strike in many hospitals across Turkey over pay and conditions; youth protests in Gaza against intolerable conditions and lack of a future opposed by Hamas; public sector workers in one-day national strike across Nigeria against cuts in fuel subsidies doubling price of fuel and food

The Turkish offices of the Russian news agency Sputnik, in Istanbul and Ankara, have just dismissed 24 unionised journalists who had decided to strike to obtain better working conditions. The strike was declared following the failure of negotiations on a new collective labor agreement, announced on August 7 the Trade Union of Journalists of Turkey (TGS), affiliated to the International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ).

A fight broke out in the Grand National Assembly...