occupations
Articles about direct action in the form of occupations, including sit-ins and sit down strikes.
Greek riots 2008 eyewitness reports
Daily reports, eyewitness and participant accounts and documents from the December 2008 uprising in Greece following the police killing of 15-year-old Alexander Grigoropoulos.
The reports cover the murder of Alexander 6 December 2008, participants then document the rebellion on a daily basis from 8 December to 20 December 2008.
These reports were compiled daily at the time by libcom.org and were grouped together retrospectively in order for easy browsing in November 2009.
Tension on labour and prison fronts in Greece
Tension is building up on both labour and prison front in Greece, with 3000 prisoners refusing food across the country, and workers from different sectors staging marches and occupations
A week before the official start of the “unrest season”, the 30 days between the anniversary of the 1973 Polytechnic Uprising (November 17), the anniversary of the assassination of Alexandros Grigoropoulos and the start of the 2008 December Uprising (December 6) and the trial of Girgoropoulos murderers (December 15), things are looking tense in Greece.
High-School occupations snowball in response to repression in Greece
The decision of the State Persecutor to press charges against pupils occupying their school in Salonica has led to a snowball of occupations of high-schools in northern Greece.
In the last month, there has been a silent wave of high-school occupations across Greece. Given the national elections and the the urban guerrilla saga in Athens, these have been grossly undereported and generally overlooked as an endemic start-of-the-school-season phenomenon.
Communique from an Absent Future
Pamphlet associated with the occupation movement at universities in the state of California.
An introduction was included in some versions of the pamphlet, and not in others.
7 AGAINST POMPEII
Occupy the Crisis: The Emerging Student-Worker Direct Action Movement in California
A summary of the recent student occupation movement commissioned by the antioch rebel newspaper from a participant in the UCSC actions.
Workers support city hall occupation in Nikea
The municipal workers association of Nikea stand in solidarity with anarchists occupying the city hall since Saturday
As the occupation of the city hall of Nikea enters its third day, the support of locals so visual during the protest march regarding the police torture and death of Mohamed Karman Atif, which led to serious clashes with the police and 8 arrests last Saturday 17/10, has been expressed in a communique by the municipal worker's association of Nikea.
Ford Visteon Enfield Workers Occupation - Alan Woodward
An eyewitness account of the 2009 Enfield Ford-Visteon factory occupation, written immediately after the event. The author was the only full-time occupier who was not a former worker at the plant.
An eyewitness account and first thoughts
Note to readers
Athens anti-torture demo leads to clashes and occupation of city hall
Anti-torture demo, over death of electroshocked immigrant, leads to clashes with riot police, arrests and occupation of city hall, in Nikea, an industrial suburb of Athens.
The city hall of Nikea, an industrial and prominently communist suburb of Athens, is under occupation since Saturday 17/10 afternoon by anarchists demanding the release of people arrested during clashes with riot police outside the police department where a Pakistani immigrant, Mohamed Karman Atif, was tortured by beating and electric shocks ileading to his death last week
Striking transport workers in Lyon occupy head office
After six days of strike action 20 workers have occupied parts of the head office of Keolis, the company responsible for the city's public transport.
The strike action began on Thursday with strong support by workers leaving only 58% of metro; 32% of tram and 25% of bus services running. Workers were protesting against management attempts to remove a large number of conditions from their contracts.
For workers' control! - Lessons of recent struggles in the UK
A leaflet compiled by members of the Solidarity Federation to share with workers in struggle - making the case for workers' self-organisation with practical examples from recent disputes. Download a print-ready pdf here.
Recent years have seen promising signs of a working class fightback, after decades of attacks on working class living standards.
