1919: The 40-hours strike The 40 Hours strike led by the Clyde Workers' Committee was the most radical strike seen on Clydeside in terms of both its tactics and its…
1915: The Glasgow rent strike The history of a months-long rent strike of 30,000 Glasgow residents against profiteering landlords, forcing the government to freeze rents for…
The Lawrence textile strike, 1912 - Sam Lowry A short history of the strike of 20,000 textile workers, mostly women and girls who included native and immigrant workers, which won big…
The Pullman railway strike, 1894 - Howard Zinn Howard Zinn on the history of the militant struggle of workers at the Pullman railway car company in Chicago against wage cuts and sackings, in…
The door to the garden: feminism and Operaismo - Mariarosa Dalla Costa A paper on the history of Italian Marxist feminism given at a seminar on Operaismo ('workerism')…
Marx’s mole is dead! - Globalisation and communication - Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri This text is effectively a summary of the arguments in Empire, in particular Negri & Hardt’s contention that Marx’s conception of class struggle is obsolete and that globalisation can be understood as capitalism's response to class struggle (7,000 words).
1890: The Australian maritime strike A short history of the 1890 strike of seamen in Australia against mass wage cuts amongst other things, which ended in defeat for the workers.
The great London dock strike, 1889 A huge and powerful strike of British dockers against low pay, unsafe conditions and casual, precarious employment contracts which, with…
The Australian maritime strike, 1878-1879 A short history of the 1878 strike of sailors and maritime workers in Australia which prevented the seaman being sacked and replaced by cheaper…
Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze This is a transcript of a 1972 conversation between the post-structuralist philosophers Michel…
The great railroad strike, 1877 - Howard Zinn Howard Zinn's short history of the biggest industrial dispute in American history by that time, shutting down half the country's rail network.
