riots
Articles about riots related to class struggle, social movements or labour unrest.
China: three days of rioting over suspicious death
Residents of the city of Shishou in the central province of Hubei fought police and set fire to a hotel after authorities labeled the death of a chef at a hotel a “suicide”.
The chef, 24 year old Tu Yuangao, was found dead outside the Yonglong hotel on the 17th of June, but his family cast doubt on the finding of “suicide” after viewing his body. They said there were no signs of blood where he was found, and the injuries on his body were inconsistent with a fall.
Protests in south-east China force repeal of new tax law
The Chinese state news service, Xinhua, reported on the 16th of June that violent protests in the south-east province of Jiangxi had forced authorities to repeal a new tax law.
The government of Nankang city had planned to increase the tax on furniture sales from 15th of June. Though a major industry in Nankang, furniture sales has a low profit margin, and the new tax law would have increased the tax burden, forcing many stores to close.
Mass antiracist march in Athens ends in serious clashes
The first mass antiracist protest march of the week, organised by anarchists, clash with strong riot police forces and a handful of collaborating nazis leading to long street battles around the coveted Agios Panteleimonas area.
On Tuesday 7/7 the first antiracist protest march of a week filled with marches against the government's anti-immigration policy and its sponsoring of nazi vigilantes took place in Athens.
20 years ago… In China democracy disarmed and slaughtered the proletariat!
Draft translation from our central review in French “Communisme” N°30, January 1990.
1. Introduction
Pitched battles over open refuse dump outside Athens
Pitched battles between locals of Grammatico, outside Athens, and riot police forces over the construction of an open refuse damp with locals digging trenches, building barricades and torching bulldozers; scores have been wounded as battles continue amidst spreading fires.
More than 1500 locals of the Black Mountain village of Grammatico, outside Athens, have erected barricades and dug trenches in order to stop the beginning of an open refuse damp (XYTA) construction in their area. The locals torched the company's bulldozers after riot police forces arrested and beat the resisting mayor, refusing to take him to the hospital to treat his wounds.
The Machine Breakers - Eric Hobsbawm
The purpose of this essay is clearly stated: to defend British labour movements against what E. P. Thompson was later to call 'the enormous condescension of posterity'; and, one might add, against ideologists of our own times. It was first published in 1952 in the first issue of a historical journal that had been recently founded by the author and a group of friends, and is still published, Past & Present
It is perhaps time to reconsider the problem of machine-wrecking in the early industrial history of Britain and other countries. About this form of early working-class struggle misconceptions are still widely held, even by specialist historians.
Short fuse: 50,000 workers on the streets and 50 factories burning in Bangladesh
The mass unrest in the garment industry continued on Monday (29 June) for a third day...
On the outskirts of Dhaka, the capital city, in the industrial zone; workers' rioting and demonstrations yesterday escalated to new heights. As thousands of workers gathered in the morning, at 10am a group set off towards the nearby Dhaka Export Processing Zone where many garment factories are located.
Iran anti-government protests photo gallery, June 2009
After the government declared a huge victory in the June 2009 elections, a wave of unrest over alleged corruption swept the country leading many to comment that the protests were the biggest since the revolution in 1979.
More mayhem - cops kill again as garment workers' rioting continues in Bangladesh
The unrest continues in the garment industry - another worker killed as rioting spreads across the whole garment factory area in Ashulia.
Ashulia district, Savar, near Dhaka; The unrest that began on Saturday (see previous story; http://libcom.org/news/fury-garment-worker-shot-dead-bangladesh-workers-strike-riot-28062009) - when security forces killed a worker during demonstrations for the reinstatement of sacked workers - has escalated.
Fury; garment worker shot dead in Bangladesh as workers strike and riot
The persistent outbreaks of workers' anger continue in the Bangladeshi garment industry. A strike escalates...
Savar, central Bangladesh (a center of textiles and agriculture); for several days last week 1800 workers at a sweater factory in Ashulia had been striking in demand of a pay increase and settlement of outstanding wages. Management finally agreed to the demands on Thursday.
