From the warehouses of Bad Hersfeld to the streets of Dhaka, from the data centres of Bogotá to the union halls of Perth, the fight against the world’s most powerful corporation is breaking out across six continents today. You can watch a video about the actions on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook or Shorts.

For the sixth consecutive year, workers and their allies are rising to Make Amazon Pay — for its exploitation of labour, its destruction of the planet, and its entanglement with the global machinery of repression. Strikes and protests are planned in 38 countries on six continents, the largest mobilisation yet.

Across the world, Amazon workers are walking off the job, marching through their cities, and standing shoulder-to-shoulder with communities to demand what every worker deserves: fair wages, safe conditions, the right to organise — and a future not dictated by algorithms and billionaires.

In Germany, Amazon is facing its largest strike in company history as thousands of warehouse workers at Bad Hersfeld, Koblenz, Winsen, Rheinberg, Werne, Dortmund, Leipzig, Frankenthal and Mönchengladbach clock into picket lines rather than their shifts.

In India, tens of thousands of workers are rallying across twenty cities — from New Delhi to Kolkata — demanding protection from lethal heatwaves that turn warehouses into furnaces, better pay (₹26,000, approximately $310 USD, per month) and the right to dignity.

In Bangladesh, garment workers are marching through Dhaka to insist that Amazon finally sign the Accord that protects their lives, more than a decade after Rana Plaza.

In Australia, workers in Perth are joining forces across unions — SDA, TWU, MEAA, and UnionsWA — warning that Amazon is hollowing out hard-won workplace standards across the entire economy.

In Canada, CSN members are rallying in Montreal, while in the United States, Amazon drivers in Illinois are on strike and community members are mobilising on Cyber Monday to demand Amazon stop powering ICE’s raids and deportations.

And for the first time, actions are erupting in Kenya, Fiji, Malaysia, and elsewhere, as workers and communities assert their right to shape the terms of the global supply chain.

These are not symbolic protests. They are strategic interventions in the circulatory system of global capitalism — and they are led by the workers who understand its rhythms best.

But the target is not only a company. It is the emerging system that Amazon now anchors: a techno-authoritarian order that fuses the power of Big Tech with the prerogatives of the far right — from Trump’s ICE raids to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Amazon likes to present itself as a retailer. But in reality, it is infrastructure: the invisible circuitry that now runs logistics, communications, surveillance, and war. Its cloud division, AWS, does not merely store data — it powers the systems that governments use to deport migrants, police dissent, and prosecute war.

Nowhere is this clearer than in Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

Through Project Nimbus — the $1.2 billion cloud contract shared by Amazon and Google with the Israeli government — Amazon provides the backbone for the digital architecture of apartheid. While Palestinians face bombardment, siege, and displacement, Amazon has deepened its commercial partnership with the Israeli state — even as its own workers, from Seattle to Dublin, demand an end to the company’s complicity in war crimes.

But today, those workers are not standing alone.

From Cape Town — where activists are resisting Amazon’s headquarters built on Indigenous Khoi and San land — to Ramallah — where postal workers are protesting Amazon’s collaboration with Israeli authorities — the Make Amazon Pay coalition is confronting the full geography of the company’s violence.

Amazon is betting on a future where advanced AI replaces workers at scale; where cloud infrastructure gives corporations unprecedented power over democratic life; where contracts with occupying armies and deportation agencies remain normal business activity. It is the same vision now embraced by far-right politicians: a world of surveillance without accountability, of profit without limit, of violence without consequence.

But this week’s actions point toward another horizon. One in which supply chains become sites of struggle, not submission; where warehouse workers link arms with tech workers, garment workers, Indigenous communities, and migrants; where a global labour movement is capable of confronting a global system of power.

That is the horizon Make Amazon Pay opens — and the horizon the Progressive International will follow in the months ahead.

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Art of the week

In London, activists have hacked 100 advertising sites across the city in a coordinated protest against Amazon and big tech’s tax avoidance. Photo by Michelle Tylicki.