The Homestead strike, 1892 - Jeremy Brecher
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 12 2013 22:20
Jeremy Brecher's detailed history of the 1892 strike of workers at the Carnegie Steel Company against the eventually successful attempt of the employer to break their union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steelworkers.
Confederated unions and industrialists sign anti-strike agreement
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Jun 10 2013 22:00
On June 1st, Italian industrialists and union confederations reached an agreement limiting the right to strike and rewriting the rules of union representation, ignoring protests from base unions and from left-leaning members of metalworkers union FIOM.
Taranto and Turin: the war against workers continues
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Mar 1 2013 10:52
While the media’s attention has been focussed on the Italian election results and their ramifications, workers continue to suffer, and the justice they deserve continues to be denied to them.
Tornado hits Taranto: one Ilva worker missing, large-scale damage in the steelworks
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Nov 28 2012 17:29
One worker is missing after a huge tornado hit the Ilva steelworks in Taranto, the surrounding area and the nearby town of Statte, on the morning of November 28. The worker fell into the sea, as the crane he was working on with three colleagues collapsed in the terrible wind.
Permanent general workers’ assembly in Ilva after the lockout of their plant
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Nov 27 2012 09:58
The Italian judiciary system is continuing its prosecution of the management of Ilva, the largest steel corporation in Europe, which has its main factory in Taranto. On Monday November 26th the judges ordered seven arrests (4 of which were house arrests) of key managers within the corporation.
Refuse the false choice “health or jobs”, fight for a guaranteed income! - The example of ILVA in Taranto
Leaflet from Mouvement Communiste and Kolektivne Proti Kapitalu arguing against the dichotomy of jobs or the environment in relation to steelworks in Italy being shut down for excessive pollution.
Taranto community refuses false choice “health vs jobs”: an example to follow
Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Oct 29 2012 08:07
A "committee of free thinking residents and workers" is demanding that the bosses pay to clean up Italy's biggest steelworks, rather than close it down
Personal histories of the early CIO
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Oct 9 2012 03:23
Transcript of a talk given by 5 people who were involved in CIO organizing in the 1930s.
Workers clash with police outside the Italian industry ministry
Submitted by working class s... on Sep 10 2012 21:31
Several hundred aluminium workers in Rome have clashed with the police during a protest against the proposed closure of a loss making Sardinian smelting plant.
Neither nationalisation nor privatisation 1945-1950: An anarchist approach
Submitted by wojtek on Sep 8 2012 09:56
This volume is one of a set which celebrates the Freedom Press Centenary by reprinting articles from anarchist journals published by the press between October 1886 and October 1986. Neither Nationalisation Nor Privatisation demonstrates the anarchist stand against the postwar Labour Policies of industrial politicking by articles from Freedom 1945 - 1950. The ironies of popular capitalism that are now proceeding should make this illumination of the onset of the state monopolies a sparkling read for today.
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