2000s
Striking olive harvest workers in Spain, 2005
Article about the agricultural industry in Spain, and the strike of mostly immigrant olive harvest workers in 2005.
Strike at Citroën Aulnay, 2005
A short article about a strike against pay and break-time cuts at a Citroen factory in France, 2005.
Canada: Students blockade the Port of Montréal, 2005
Article about blockade by students in Canada striking against cuts in education.
School occupations and strikes, Germany, 2005
Two short articles on school strikes and occupations in Germany in 2005.
School occupations and attacks on student demonstration in Paris, 2005
Article on the nationwide movement of school students and teachers against education reform, and on the attacks on student demomstrations which occured by youth from the banlieus.
First strike for thirteen years at Skoda, Czech Republic, 2005
30 March: Some 12,000 of the 21,000 employees at Skoda walked off the job for an hour on the 30th of March, putting the company 240 cars under its daily quota of about 2,000.
Strike and occupation of IT workers at Schneider Electrics, France, 2004
Article about the strike and occupation of offices by IT workers in France, which was co-ordinated by directly democratic methods.
About the Frog Pubs strike, 2003
Detailed article about the struggle of Sri Lankan Tamil migrant workers in Paris against British pub chain Frog.
McDonald’s Workers’ Resistance - reflections, 2004
The founding Glasgow branch reflect on their time in MWR as it basically winds itself down.
McDonald’s Workers’ Resistance was set up by a group of teenage workers at one restaurant in Scotland in 1999. In 2000 those workers decided they needed to communicate with other McDonald’s workers in the UK and around the world.
Ireland bus fare-free day, 2003
Article about Irish bus workers organising a fare free day on 18 July 2003, in which they allowed passengers to travel for free in protest against privatisation of the services.
