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Low-paid workers strike and protest at multiple stores
- New Zealand
6 Oct 2008 - 06:16
In Auckland and Hamilton low-paid workers at McDonald's and the Farmers department store are striking and protesting for better pay and working conditions.
Wave of strikes and agreements in Brazilian car industry
- Brazil
5 Oct 2008 - 19:53
Workers at major car industry plants in Brazil went on strike during September in support of their demands for improved pay.

Ladbrokes staff strike against pay offer
- UK
5 Oct 2008 - 19:42
Staff at a Ladbrokes betting call centre on Merseyside are staging a 24-hour walkout in a row over pay.
Eleven London bus garages join strike action
- UK
4 Oct 2008 - 18:47
Unite members at a further eleven bus garages in London are set to join the 3,500 bus workers who have been taking strike action on Friday 10 and Wednesday 22 October.

Mexico: Guerrero teachers occupy electoral institute in protest at educational reform bill

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Mexico: Morelos teachers' strike continues with national support
- Mexico
3 Oct 2008 - 15:10
Titan prisons: "consultation" ends, construction set to begin
- UK
2 Oct 2008 - 18:51
Building workers on strike in Trinidad
- Trinidad & Tobago
2 Oct 2008 - 17:21
UCU members vote for industrial action at Nottingham Trent University
- UK
2 Oct 2008 - 11:49

100,000 Bollywood workers on strike
- India
2 Oct 2008 - 10:00
Conciliation staff in one hour stoppage over pay
- UK
30 Sep 2008 - 17:45
230 Sheffield steel workers to lose jobs
- UK
30 Sep 2008 - 17:34
Arrests of Korean trade unionists continue
- South Korea
29 Sep 2008 - 19:06
800,000 bank workers on strike in India
- India
25 Sep 2008 - 17:09

1 year 1 day ago
Workers at the mining company QIT Fer et Titane in Quebec hav been on strike for over a month, with no end in sight.

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Mexico: Guerrero teachers occupy electoral institute in protest at educational reform bill
Schoolteachers and teachers in training have occupied the electoral institute's state offices in Chilpancingo, Guerrero and are threatening to destroy the ballots of today's statewide municipal elections.

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Reading Capital Politically - Harry Cleaver
Harry Cleaver's brilliant seminal work on forming a practical, politcal interpretation of Marx's Capital.

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GI opposition to the Vietnam War, 1965-1973 - Howard Zinn
Historian Howard Zinn on the opposition to the Vietnam War by American soldiers. For a fuller introduction we recommend our article 1961-1973: GI Resistance in the Vietnam War

Tea Break

Tea Break July 2008
First issue of an irregular workers' bulletin put together by users of the website, libcom.org. This issue focuses on the 2008 pay dispute over sub-inflation pay offers.