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Bahrain bus drivers strike
- Bahrain
22 Jul 2008 - 11:50
More than 50 bus drivers from the Cars Transport Corporation were on strike in Bahrain yesterday for higher pay.
Scottish civil servants vote for strike over pay
- Scotland
21 Jul 2008 - 23:15
Scottish civil servants have backed strike action in protest of the government's sub-inflation pay offer.

Brazil oil strike spreads
- Brazil
19 Jul 2008 - 10:41
Brazilian oil workers on Thursday expanded a strike that was limited to platforms in the Campos Basin to all production and refining units of state-run energy company Petrobras.
UK: One in four will live in fuel poverty
- UK
18 Jul 2008 - 09:21
Over 14 million people could find themselves in fuel poverty in the near future, if new figures from gas giant Centrica predicting a 70% rise in gas prices prove accurate - nearly a quarter of the population.

Roundup of a month of strikes in Iran

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Argos strike 'solid'
- UK
17 Jul 2008 - 23:26
Brazilian oil workers begin five day strike
- Brazil
15 Jul 2008 - 15:30
Workers riot in China
- China
14 Jul 2008 - 13:51
Water transport workers in Bangladesh in national wildcat
- Bangladesh
14 Jul 2008 - 13:38

Iranian autoworkers strike against precarious work
- Iran
10 Jul 2008 - 17:10
One worker killed as security guards attack Indian diamond workers strike
- India
9 Jul 2008 - 15:51
6,000 workers wildcat in Vietnam
- Vietnam
9 Jul 2008 - 15:34
Nottingham Trent University de-recognises academics union
- UK
9 Jul 2008 - 13:21
Bus driver rehired after co-workers wildcat
- Canada
8 Jul 2008 - 17:19

1 year 3 hours ago
On March 1, 2006, approximately four hundred women who work as train attendants on the KTX “bullet train” began a strike against casual working conditions.

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Roundup of a month of strikes in Iran
A round-up of recent strike activity in Iran, including the car industry and agriculture.

articles

Strike Across The Empire, 1925 - Baruch Hirson and Lorraine Vivian
A fascinating and detailed account of a little known international seamens' strike in 1925, lasting over 100 days and spreading from Britain to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

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Theses on the Situationist International and Its Time
Debord and Sanguinetti look back over the history of the Situationists and rather optimistically attempt to place them in historical perspective.

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.