This article by Richard Pithouse, first published in Monthly Review, charts the rise of the militant South African shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo which first emerged in 1995 and has gone from strength to strength since then despite severe state repression.

Review of The Street, series 2 - the latest TV drama from Jimmy McGovern .

A critique by the Mexican "Libertarian Socialist Group" of recent EZLN "Zapatista" policies centred on the "Other Campaign", including the political campaigning and cult of celebrity of Marcos; and analysis of their political programme as left-capitalist constitutional reformism, i.e., only a defence of Mexican domestic capital and state - "bourgeois protectionism" - against the encroachments of international neo…

10,000 workers have walked out of the Dacia-Renault car plant for improved wages.

Mattick's classic work on the economic theories of Henryk Grossman and the dynamics behind the inevitable downfall of capitalism.

Professors throughout Egypt took part in one of the biggest university strikes last Sunday to renew demands for better pay and working conditions…

Greek unions promise to continue protests against the government's pension reforms, passed on Thursday.

In a week traditionally quiet for political programming, this week's highlight is the biographical drama Silkwood, based on the true story of a…

Public transport in Brussels was almost entirely halted on Wednesday, as bus and tram drivers went on strike for improved safety, after a bus was attacked with a molotov cocktail.

Thousands of Job Centre and benefit office staff carried out a 48-hour strike this week against a new three-year pay deal.

Italian riot police and several hundred Alitalia Airline maintenance employees have clashed in Rome as workers protested job losses threatened by…

Greek workers are set to go on general strike tomorrow (Wednesday 19th March) in protest of the government's planned pension reforms.