Warsaw: ZSP Starts Rent Strike Action
Submitted by akai on Sep 14 2010 07:17
Polish anarcho-syndicalist organisation ZSP is calling for a rent strike in Warsaw starting on Oct. 1.
General strike in India planned over price rises
Submitted by Steven. on May 17 2010 11:23
India's major unions have called for a nationwide general strike this September over numerous issues including the rising cost of living and demanding an improved social security net.
General strikes in Yemen over rising prices
Submitted by Steven. on May 15 2010 21:13
A programme of escalating nationwide strikes of the private and public sectors in Yemen began today for pay increases and the establishment of a minimum wage.
Safe with the Gaping Maw
tale of termination by bill dollar
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
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
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.
