Bloodshed in Bayonne
Submitted by Tom McDonough on Sep 24 2016 19:33
October 8, 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the strike at Standard Oil’s Bayonne, N.J., refineries. In the course of the ten-day strike, 4 people were killed and 86 wounded by the police in what John Reed described as a police riot. Yet, not a word of this is mentioned in the Rockefeller biographies.
The French Silk Workers Revolt of 1834
Submitted by Battlescarred on Sep 19 2016 19:59
A short account of the Lyon silk workers strike of 1834
Logistics worker killed while on strike in Piacenza, Italy
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Sep 16 2016 15:58
During the night between September 14 and 15, Abdelssalam Eldanf was killed while he was on strike with other workers in front of the GLS logistic plant in Piacenza.
The Dublin lockout, 1913 - John Dorney
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 31 2016 21:25
A short history of Ireland’s most significant industrial dispute: the mass lockout of 20,000 workers by 400 employers in Dublin from August 1913 to January 1914.
The Wave Hill walk-off, 1966-1975
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 22 2016 18:15
A short history of the Wave Hill, or Gurindji, strike, when aboriginal agricultural workers walked out for equal pay and then lodged a claim for the land they worked on. They remained out for an incredible nine years, and were eventually given back a proportion of the land.
Workers' control in Latin America, 1930-1979 - Jonathan C Brown
Submitted by Anonymous on Aug 11 2016 18:59
A series of essays investigating the everyday acts through which Latin American workers attempted to assert more control over work processes and thereby add dignity to their lives, during the mass working class struggles in the mid-20th century. We do not agree with the leftist nationalist perspective of some of the essays but reproduce them all for the historical information therein.
Radical Glasgow: a skeletal sketch of Glasgow's radical tradition - John Couzin
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 10 2016 20:04
Snapshots of Glasgow's revolutionary and working class radical history from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
The Prince Edward County school strike, 1951
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 1 2016 20:07
A short history of a school children's strike against against racist and substandard at Robert Russa Moton High School in Prince Edward County.
The Bisbee deportation of 1917 - Sheila Bonnand
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 1 2016 19:48
An overview of the Bisbee deportation, when over 1000 strikers in the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union were illegally transported by armed vigilantes to New Mexico.
Polish artisans strike for the right to vote, Jamestown, Virginia, 1619
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 1 2016 11:56
A short history of the strike of Polish artisan workers in English colonial North America, for the same right to vote as English people.
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