CYRIL MAY was one of the most formidable orators of the 1940s and 1950s, when outdoor public speaking was at its peak.

First published in 2012 this paper, written after sustained immersion in Abahlali…

Frustrations over racism and low wages lead to a series of strikes from 1919-21, involving every sector and most ethnic groups on the islands.

A general strike successfully defeated the ruling military Junta and temporarily halted a campaign of discrimination against the countries…

In 1946 a group of Marxist students opposed to the Dictatorship of Elie Lescot, started a student movement that grew into a general strike…

Black workers on the Rhodesian Rail way (Zimbabwe and Zambia) struck against unfair working conditions and company racism.

A strike by women in the cities textile industry against discrimination and working conditions.

In 1944 El Salvadoran Dictator General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez had successfully crushed…

In 1947 the city of Mombasa was paralysed by a general strike by its black African workforce in an attempt to end pay disparities, especially…

In 1953 following news of Stalin's death inmates in gulag complex in Vorkuta struck in protest of their conditions. In response the Soviet…

A good friend and former colleague of ours from west London worked at Amazon in Hemel Hempstead in…

During the instability of the Constitutional Revolution of 1907 Iranian workers launched a series of strikes to achieve reforms, particularly…