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Subsistence riots in Russia during World War I - Barbara Engel

Submitted by tolern on Feb 22 2010 22:25

Article on food riots, mostly by women, during World War I which helped spark the Russian revolution.

Female consciousness and collective action in Barcelona - Temma Kaplan

Submitted by tolern on Feb 22 2010 22:18
Barcelona women protest against high cost of living, 1918

Article on women's protests in Spain between 1910 and 1918, which had many similarities to those that sparked the French and Russian Revolutions.

(Trigger warning as this article contains mention of sexual violence)

1977: Egypt's bread intifada

Submitted by Alex... on Dec 29 2009 00:16

A short history of the country-wide uprising against the termination of state subsidies for basic commodities in January 1977. Despite savage repression resulting in hundreds of deaths, spontaneous strikes, demonstrations, and widespread rioting forced the government to back down in just two days.

Autoreduction movements in Turin, 1974

Submitted by Steven. on Nov 17 2009 11:56

Eddy Cherki and Michel Wieviorka's account of the workers' self-reduction of prices movement in the Italian city of Turin in the 1970s.

Subway workers hold 'no fare' protest and strike in Buenos Aires

Submitted by Ed on Sep 11 2009 18:25

This week employees on the Buenos Aires subway freed turnstiles for two hours in a move to press the government to grant legal status to their recently created trade union as well as taking strike action.

1980: Poland mass strikes - Henri Simon

Submitted by Ex-temp on Apr 3 2009 17:22
Strike in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk. 1980. Photo by T. Michalak.

Henri Simon's account of the successful strike wave which swept Poland in the summer of 1980 when the government raised the price of meat.

Martinique general strike called off

Submitted by Ed on Mar 15 2009 16:56
The first day of demonstrations on 5 February 2009 in Fort-de-France, Martinique.

Organisers of a crippling 38-day anti-inflation strike in the French island of Martinique lifted their protest Saturday with the signing of a protocol with the government.

Guadeloupe general strike comes to an end

Submitted by Ed on Mar 7 2009 13:30

Union leaders on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe have agreed to end a 44-day-old general strike after most of their demands were met.

The working class struggle against the crisis: self-reduction of prices in Italy - Bruno Ramirez

Submitted by Ed on Mar 5 2009 17:36

Bruno Ramirez's analysis of the Italian working class' response to the economic crisis of the 1970s, with particular focus on "the refusal to comply with price increases of essential services", also known as 'self-reduction'.

One dead in Guadeloupe strike

Submitted by libcom.org on Feb 18 2009 14:09
Aftermath of the night of rioting in Guadeloupe

As Guadeloupe's general strike against rising prices spreads across the Caribbean, a union official is shot dead.