Class Struggle in the Time of Coronavirus: An Incomplete Chronicle of Events (16-21 March)
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 23 2020 19:37
The following review is a small depiction of what’s happening in the world, outside Italy (for the situation in Italy, see: leftcom.org).
USA: Overview of Auto Workers' Strike
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 12 2020 21:24
The article here, from our ICT affiliate in the United States, evaluates the longest strike by US car workers in a decade. After six weeks, members of the United Auto Workers voted for the union’s deal with General Motors.
1968: Ford Female Employees Win Strike for Equal Pay in Dagenham
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 25 2017 19:44
In 1968 women who worked for the Ford plant in Dagenham discovered their pay was significantly less than male workers doing the same work. They struck for equal and despite ridiculing in the press the strike won a near wage parity, and promoted the debate on equal pay for equal work in the UK
The Black Voice
Partial online archive of The Black Voice, the information arm of the United Black Workers, an organization of workers at the Ford Mahwah Assembly plant in New Jersey in the early 1970s.
Strikers close down Hudson body plant
An article by L.B. about the strike at auto-parts manufacturer, Briggs, in Detroit. Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker February 14, 1933 (Vol. 14, No. 109, Whole No. 842)
1932: the Ford Hunger March massacre
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Dec 22 2013 20:35
Pictures from the 1932 Ford Hunger March massacre in Detroit, where police and Ford security guards killed 4 and injured 60 when they opened fire on a demonstration organized by the Communist Party USA's Unemployed Council. Originally posted at the Walter P. Reuther Library.
Solidarity for workers' power #2.11
Eleventh issue of Solidarity for workers' power with articles on the lastest in the CND and at Fords, the Committee of 100, hitchhiking in the US and more.
Solidarity for workers' power #2.09
Ninth issue of the second volume of Solidarity for workers' power with articles about the enquiry into labour relations at Fords, dissent from the CND rank and file, the thoughts of unemployed folks in West Hartlepool and more.
Solidarity for workers' power #3.10
Issue of Solidarity from 16 August 1965 with articles about Errico Malatesta, struggles at Ford, Notting Hill and more.
Solidarity for workers' power #3.08
Issue of Solidarity for social revolution from 16 April 1965 with articles about the free speech movement and civil rights, a workers' defeat at Ford and more.
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