Accounts
1917: Recollections of a Bisbee Deportee: Still on strike!
An account by a striking miner and Wobbly (Industrial Workers of the World member) who was deported with 1,185 other strikers to New Mexico by armed vigilantes hired by copper bosses to defeat the strike
An account of a factory strike
A brief account of sabotage and a strike at a factory in the United States by Nick, an assembly line worker
Harvesting sabotage in Texas
A brief account of farm workers' co-operation and workload-reduction by Tad, a combine harvester driver
US - bike messengers' action
A brief account of direct action by bicycle messengers by Kenny, a courier
Kmart employee sabotage
An account of some low-payed discount chain store employees ensuring they got a fairer reward for their labour by Karl, a stock clerk
US - restaurant sabotage
A brief account of sabotage at a seafood restaurant, by Chuck, a bus boy
Self-organisation and action in the US post office
An account of sabotage, solidarity and wildcat strikes at a large postal sorting office in the US by Judi, a mail handler
Sabotage at an aeroplane parts factory
An account of sabotage at a small manufacturing firm in California by Burt, a machinist
Demolition workers' direct action
Building workers who weren't being paid take matters into their own hands on this New England site. An account by Anthony, a demolition worker
Copy shop direct action and sabotage
An account of direct action and sabotage in a photocopy shop, making the job enjoyable and with more pay, by Alan, a copy shop clerk
