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Italian miners barricade themselves underground with 350kg of explosives to prevent pit closure

100 Sardinian workers in Italy's only coal mine have barricaded themselves into the Carbosulcis mine overnight, with 350kg of company explosives. The occupation comes ahead of a government meeting to decide the future of the pit.

Review: "Socialisme ou Barbarie." Un engagement politique et intellectuel dans la France de I'après-guerre

Marcel van der Linden reviews Philippe Gottraux's book on French libertarian…

Quakertown blues: Philadelphia's longshoremen and the decline of the IWW

An essay by Peter Cole on the relationship between the IWW and Communism and how the collapse of the…

Review: Civil rights unionism: Tobacco workers and the struggle for democracy in the mid-twentieth century south

A review of Robert Korstad's book on Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural,…

"Workers of the world, embrace!" Daniel Guerin, the labour movement and homosexuality

David Berry's biographical account of Guerin's discovery of the working class and of the links…

"Virile syndicalism" in comparative perspective: a gender analysis of the IWW in the United States and Australia

Francis Shor analyses gender and masculinity in the Australian and American IWW of…

Gender and labour/working class history in comparative perspective: the syndicalist and Wobbly experience in the USA, Australia, and New Zealand

An essay incorporating some theoretical insights about gender and labour/working…

Reacting to the workers’ revolt: The Lakehead and the Winnipeg General Strike

A piece by Michel S. Beaulieu on Lakehead workers and their relation to the radicalism that…

Review: Revolution and counterrevolution: Class struggle in a Moscow metal factory and worker resistance under Stalin: Class and revolution on the shop floor

A review of two books on the topic of working class responses to Stalinism in the…

Review: Radical unionism in the mid-west, 1900-1950

A review of a book on radical union in the Midwestern U.S., mostly from the 1930s-1950s.

Red Harbor: class, violence, and community in Grays Harbor, Washington

A thesis by Aaron G. Anthony on class struggle in a Washington town.

UFC 151 cancellation and lost fighter wages

A brief analysis of the fallout following the cancellation of UFC 151 with UFC bosses blaming one fighter for other fighters' lost wages.