Welcome to Asian Labour School

We share critical labour movement skills and knowledge to ground workers, organisers and students in practical organising, and in the history and theory of labour.

Registration is now OPEN for the Oct-Dec 2025 semester. Please check out the available courses below. Registration is open until one day before the course starts, or until courses are filled.

Course Offers in 2025

Labour, Power and Strategies
Labour, Power and Strategies

In this  course, we will collectively grasp the fundamentals of labor activism, organizational forms, collective actions, and collective power. Over six engaging sessions, we will explore essential principles that drive effective organization and mobilization within labor contexts.

Writing Worker Stories: Movement-Centered Labour Journalism
Writing Worker Stories: Movement-Centered Labour Journalism

This course introduces students to a movement-centered approach to writing labour stories for publishing. We teach the values and perspectives of this approach, and the practical storytelling skills necessary to tell compelling workers’ stories.

Labour’s Polycrisis and Our Disenchantment
Labour’s Polycrisis and Our Disenchantment

What are you seeing? What fascinates and intrigues you? Are you feeling energetic and inspired? What frustrates and disappoints you? How can we make sense of all these observations and feelings?Let's figure out together why we are stuck and how we can become unstuck.

Worker Cooperatives: Can Cooperating Transform How We Work Together?
Worker Cooperatives: Can Cooperating Transform How We Work Together?

When all of our working experiences have been in profit-maximizing enterprises, or in workplaces that are structured hierarchically, it is no wonder that we can encounter challenges when attempting to run an enterprise democratically.

What You Need To Know about Asian Labour School

The Asian Labour School is established as an institution of labour movement education in Asia, and an extension of Asian Labour Review. By offering an array of courses on critical movement skills and knowledge, our aim is to cultivate a new generation of workers, activists and students to revitalise mass, democratic and radical labour movements in Asia. The School is for anyone interested in learning to become more effective organisers, or expanding their knowledge of Asian labour movements. We combine skills and knowledge from the movement and in research to help participants to become historically and theoretically informed of our movement.

The Asian Labour School consists of two semesters: from March to May, and from September to November each year. Each course consists of 6 sessions, each session 1.5-hour long and delivered either every week or every two weeks. The class size will be limited to ensure the best learning experience. The courses will be delivered online on Zoom in the evening times in Asia, and the language of instruction is English. Completion of a course may involve a class project that demonstrates the students’ learning, but no examination will be required.

Each semester, we offer a variety of courses on practical and organising skills, history, and theory of labour in Asia. Please take a look at the course descriptions on our website, and register for one or multiple courses. Acceptance is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The course fee is non-refundable.

We do not make a profit from the School, and keep the costs to a minimum. To make the School sustainable and compensate for the labour of the course facilitators to prepare and teach the courses, we charge a fee for each course. We aim to keep the fees to an affordable level and offer two tiers of fees, depending on your ability to pay. For the regular fee, each course is USD$60; for students/workers/unemployed who cannot afford the regular fee, each course is USD$40. You can choose either option at the time of registration. The course fee is non-refundable.

We will be offering 4 courses: "Labour, Power and Strategies", "Writing Worker Stories: Movement-Centered Labour Journalism", "Worker Cooperatives: Can Cooperating Transform How We Work Together?", and "Labour’s Polycrisis and Our Disenchantment".

Become a Skilled Organiser and Informed Strategist with Asian Labour School

Be part of a new generation of activists to build a mass, democratic and radical labour movement in Asia.