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In 2021, workers in a German-owned automotive supplier in Slovakia mounted a successful strike to…

The revolt against the authoritarian regime in Belarus has spread from the city…

In the late 1970s American manufacturing was in extreme difficulty. The Carter administration turned to a series of radical (for the American…

Two months after workers launched wildcat strikes in the Mexican city of Matamoros,…

A brief introduction to Richard Müller, the leader of the revolutionary shop stewards (Revolutionäre Obleute) among the German metal workers during World War One, and his role in the mass strikes in the German munitions industry in 1917 and 1918, with excerpts from his book, Eine Geschichte der Novemberrevolution (A History of the November Revolution) (1924), and an official police intelligence report on the strike…

Siemens announces massive job cuts in Germany and worldwide. At the same time, the company is about to realise one of the biggest IPOs in German…

A short account of the 19 June killing of 16 people and wounding of 283 by police during a demonstration of women and children in support of a…

When two employees were fired by their employer for strike activity their fellow workers brought the…

Article on the cause and human costs of the second Congo War (1998-2003) a civil war that involved multiple armed groups, most backed by large…

A series of essays investigating the everyday acts through which Latin American workers attempted to…

An overview of the Bisbee deportation, when over 1000 strikers in the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union were illegally…