Vietnam: Wildcat strikes win pay hike More than a dozen strikes by more than 40,000 workers in Ho Chi Minh City's export processing zones have forced the Vietnamese government to raise the country's minimum wage by nearly 40 percent.
Radical union's picket wins worker back unpaid wages Members of the Chicago General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World labour union (IWW) last week picketted and called for a boycott of the Ideal Hand Car Wash in Chicago’s Albany Park neighbourhood.
Bus drivers wildcat against 'spy' CCTV Bus drivers in North West London took wildcat action last week and refused to leave their garage in protest against management bullying and 'spy' cameras in their cabs.
Russian gas crisis boost for the nuclear lobby The gas-dispute between Russia and Ukraine earlier this month has been a gift to the British nuclear industry, and could not have come at a better time for the pro-nuclear forces that are working over-time to secure a new generation of nuclear reactors across Britain.
Tube strike update: new offer criticised RMT and ASLEF arrange joint ballot over health and safety, harrassment and breached agreements.
Worlds apart: socialism in Marx and in early Bolshevism Paresh Chattopadhyay's article on Marx and the divergence of the Bolsheviks from his conception of…
New Orleans residents resist bulldozers With a cell phone crooked in her ear and scores of activists cheering her on in the 2000 block of Reynes Street, lawyer Tracie Washington sent a backhoe and its crew packing from the Lower 9th Ward Thursday morning...
Rubel, Maximilien, 1905-1996 A short biography of Ukrainian-born French council communist Maximilien Rubel.
Police use tear gas at EU docks protest Dockers protesting against EU plans to liberalise docks today were attacked by the police with water cannons and tear gas as they approached the…