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Australia you're standing in it part 1: the pulse rate of accumulation

Part 1 of a series on the current conjuncture of capital accumulation and class struggle in…

Labour Movements and Opposition Groups in Saudi Arabia: 1950-1975

An article about the growth of the Saudi Labour movement and additional radical opposition groups, focussing on two strikes at the ARAMCO oil company in 1953 and 1956.

Black Flag 235 (2012)

With workfare in the news at the time, this issue focused on the CWU union's enthusiastic support for its use in Royal Mail, alongside articles…

Towards Autonomy: The Social Experiment in Rojava

The struggle of the communities in Rojava can be viewed as integral part of the grassroots projects and radical endeavors for social liberation.
Schoolchildren on strike in 1985. Photo by Dave Sinclair

Timeline of UK schoolchildren's strikes

A chronology of school pupil walkouts which I have been able to discover in the UK from the 19th century to today.
New York Herald: Kaiser abdicates

The Kaiser goes: the generals remain - Theodor Plivier

This is an amazing novel about the German Revolution, written by a participant. Republished here in…
Striking schoolchildren march in Liverpool, 1985. Photo by Dave Sinclair

The UK school students' strike, 1985 - Steven Johns

A short history of a successful national walkout of up to a quarter of a million school students against the Conservative government's workfare…
IWW union hall in Walsenburg, 1928 when members rushed to defend it after it was

Blood on the coal: Colorado strike of 1927 - Patrick Murfin

A short history of the great Colorado coal strike of 1927, called by the revolutionary union…
Stepney schoolchildren on strike, 1971

The Stepney schoolchildren's strike, 1971

A short account of a strike of 800 pupils in Stepney, east London on May 27, 1971, which successfully won reinstatement of a teacher who was…
Striking pupils and their parents, Burston, 1914

The Burston Strike School, 1914-1939

A short history of the longest schoolchildren's strike in UK history, when nearly all pupils at Burston school in Norfolk, England walked out in…

Concrete examples of non-Labour Relations Board unions (Part II) - Phinneas Gage

The second part of a series of concrete examples and very brief summaries of organizations that have…

Those who didn’t give up

The leftist culture center «Rosa» in Russia was closed by phone call from police department three days after the official opening. It is not…
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