Workers have launched all-out strikes at two sites owned by Sanofi Pasteur in support of a demand for higher wages.

Looking back on the September attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo members in Kennedy Road, Durban, Raj Patel, author of 'Stuffed & Starved' and 'The Value of Nothing' profiles the views of key Abahlali activists including S’bu Zikode, Zodwa Nsibande and Mazwi Nzimande. Though strongly disrupted by the African National Congress-led (ANC) attack in September, Abahlali has continued to meet, while the absence of its…

Wildcat article examining the origin of the concept of "worker inquiries" and the first experiences with them during the beginning of the 1960s in Italy.

Histadrut, the biggest Israeli trade union federation, has declared that it will be allowing legal…

A short history of the country-wide uprising against the termination of state subsidies for basic commodities in January 1977. Despite savage…

Wildcat interview with Steve Wright, author of Storming Heaven. Class composition and struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (Pluto Press 2002).

Control has always been part of the function of the welfare state. After the second world war in particular, it was not only a matter of keeping dissatisfied and rebellious workers quiet through concessions, but also of integrating them into the state and better controlling them through a centralised organisation of their reproduction; thus the state gained a clearer view of the living conditions of workers and was…

An extensive two-part article on factory workers in the US in 1947. In the first half, auto worker Phil Singer (using the pen name, Paul Romano)…

Essay looking at the concepts of nation and national identity, especially in relation to the Israel/Palestine conflict.

A sociology graduate student who researches 'radical activist groups' is under pressure from a US court.

Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward analyse the movement of industrial workers and the role of the unions following the great depression, from…

Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward give a detailed account and analysis of the militant movement…