Union busting is the fashion at Hugo Boss At ‘Texim’, a Turkish textile factory that produces clothing for Hugo Boss and Pierre Cardin, thirty eight workers have been sacked for…
Bangladeshi workers fight back against corrupt bosses 15,000 Bangladeshi garment workers blockade a key highway in protest at unpaid wages. Meanwhile,…
Indonesian syndicalists fight for justice at PT Garmindo Jaya KNH Indonesian anarchosyndicalist comrades of the Workers Power Syndicate and other fellow workers face…
Wildcat strike in Antep, Turkey: “We want to live like human beings” The textile workers in the organised industrial zone of Antep, a city on the border of the Kurdish…
The long haul: The Bombay textile workers strike of 1982-83 - Rajni Bakshi An extremely valuable book about the Bombay textile workers' strike of 1982-3, which deserves to be…
Resistance is high; garment workers force shutdown in 350 factories The resurgence of unrest in the Bangladeshi garment sector continues with over 500,000 workers now…
Return of the repressed; new days of rage for garment workers - and the disappeared... After a long period of relative quiet, workers are again taking mass action in the Bangladeshi…
India: workplace resistance increases The labour movement in India is still under the control of bureaucratic leaders and political groups. However, as shown by a strike last year,…
China Blue China Blue is a documentary that follows a 17 year old Chinese girl migrating from her home in the Sichuan province to work in a jeans factory in Guangdong. It shows the harsh realities as a…
Last train home A documentary focusing on one family of migrant workers, mainly around Chinese New Year. It reveals the conditions they live and work in, and the strain it has on the family, which comes out…
The 1842 Strike In the summer of 1842 a great wave of strikes engulfed Lancashire and Yorkshire. The wave began in the Staffordshire coalfield in July when the miners went on strike for fewer hours and more…