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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…

The Luddites War on Industry: A story of machine smashing and spies

An article from Do or Die Issue 6 summarizing the rise of the Luddite movement.

O fetichismo das mercadorias - Fredy Perlman

Introdução de Fredy Perlman, escrita em 1968, para o livro de Isaak Illich Rubin "Essays on Marx's Theory of Value" (Black Rose Books, Montreal,…

Notes from the general strike of 100 million euros

We flowed among the water and our co-demonstrators to the mass demonstration at the central railway station in Helsinki. We were there to oppose…

A Internacional Situacionista - La Banquise

Capítulo de "le roman de nos origines" (La Banquise No. 2 1983) que examina as contribuições e limites da Internacional Situacionista. (Traduzido e publicado pelo Grupo Autonomia no website Biblioteca Virtual Revolucionária em março de 2006 a partir da versão original em francês - publicada no website John gray-For Communism).
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