Wildcat (Germany)
Communist group based in Germany, not to be confused with the UK/US based group of the same name.
Romania after the transition - restructuring and struggle, 2004
Article looking at capitalist restructuring and economic changes in Romania, and the growing militancy of the working class.
Romania after the Transition
Promised Land and Class Struggle
Wildcat Preface: Beverly Silver, ‘Forces of Labor’
Wildcat Germany explain why they translated Beverly Silver’s book ‘Forces of Labor’, which traces workers struggles since the 1860s.
[i]Comrades from Wildcat have just published the German translation of Beverly Silver’s book ‘Forces of Labor’.
Protests against welfare-reform in Germany, 2004
Account an analysis of struggles against the abolition of unemployment benefits in Germany, which would immediately affect 600,000 people.
New wage-model at VW, Germany, 2004
Article analysing new wage structures for 5,000 new manufacturing jobs at Volkswagen in Germany.
One week wildcat strike at General Motors/Opel in Bochum, 2004
Extensive background information and analysis, and an account of a wildcat strike of Opel/GM car workers in Germany.
(Another) Paradise Lost - Strikes and riots in the Export Zones in Vietnam and Bangladesh, 2006
Information and analysis on the workers' movements and strike waves which have swept factories in Asia.
Zanon factory occupation - interview with workers
An excellent set of interviews conducted with workers at the worker-run Zanon ceramics factory, occupied at the time of the Argentine uprising of 2001. It includes historical and background information.
This was published by Wildcat in December 2003 but has only now been translated into English (for prol-position news #6, July 2006), and a short introduction added. Although it is a bit old, it still contains unique insights into the situation, hopes, difficulties and dynamics of the occupation process and many personal interviews.
Global War for the World Order - Wildcat, Treason pamphlet
The articles in this pamphlet are all translations of articles originally written in German by the communist group Wildcat and deal with the terrorist atrocities of September 11 2001, the US invasion of Afghanistan and the leadup to the invasion of Iraq. Despite being made somewhat redundant by the passage of time these articles remain some of the best available on “The War on Terror”.
Intakes: 'Rostock or: How the New Germany is being Governed'
In this abridged translation of an article originally published in Wildcat (Germany), it is shown how the state is using the issue of racism to develop its 'social strategy of tension'.
2003-2004: Los Angeles supermarket strike
The history of a huge five-month strike and lockout of 70,000 supermarket workers in California, which ended in defeat.
The walkout was against cuts in benefits, and run almost entirely by union leaderships. While the supermarkets lost $2.5bn in profits, they succeeded in beating the strike and imposing the cuts.
Notes on Another Defeat for Workers in the US
