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 October-November 2026 semester. Please check out the available courses below. Registration is open until one day before the course starts, or until courses are filled.

What is Asian Labour School

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Course Offers in 2026

Building Movement Democracy through Democratic Facilitation (Course Starts on Oct 15, 2026)
Building Movement Democracy through Democratic Facilitation (Course Starts on Oct 15, 2026)

Democracy starts in the smallest conversations, dialogues and meetings by raking in most diverse opinions and ideas, piecing them together to create something new and meaningful to all participants.

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Worker Cooperatives: Can Cooperating Transform How We Work Together? (Course Starts on Oct 10, 2026)
Worker Cooperatives: Can Cooperating Transform How We Work Together? (Course Starts on Oct 10, 2026)

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.

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Careful, We’re Organizing aka How to Fight without Falling Apart (Course Starts on Oct 21, 2026)
Careful, We’re Organizing aka How to Fight without Falling Apart (Course Starts on Oct 21, 2026)

Careful, We’re Organizing aka How to Fight without Falling Apart Course Description Movements are built through relationships. Yet the pressures

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Building Strong Union Committee at Workplace (Course starts on Oct 15, 2026)
Building Strong Union Committee at Workplace (Course starts on Oct 15, 2026)

Building Strong Union Committee at Workplace Course Description In order to win any campaign at workplace, unions need to be

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Designing Radical Walking Tours (Course Starts on Oct 12, 2026)
Designing Radical Walking Tours (Course Starts on Oct 12, 2026)

Designing Radical Walking Tours Course Description Have you ever thought about leading your own radical walking tour to share with

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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 in the Spring and Fall Each course consists of 5 or 6 weekly sessions, each session 1.5-hour long. 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. If you are in financial difficulties and would like to apply for a fee waiver, please email us at  convenor@labourschool.org, and a decision will be made by the course facilitator.

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Become a Skilled and Informed Movement Builder with Asian Labour School

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

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