French docks blockaded in strike action Workers at France's seven biggest ports went on strike today to protest a government plan to sell dock-equipment management to private companies…
Health and postal strikes in Trinidad Health and postal workers in Trinidad and Tobago have been out on strike this week over hospital overcrowding and pay and conditions respectively.
Abahlali baseMjondolo to host National UnFreedom Day Freedom Day, 27 April, is the major national holiday in the civic religion of post-apartheid South Africa. The poor are usually herded into…
The Politics of Fire Abahlali baseMjondolo has long sought to politicise fire & shit: to show that people suffer fires because electricity is refused, to show that…
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Release for the March on Mlaba, 28 September 2007 Press release of Abahlali baseMjondolo in the run up to a march on the mayor of Durban to protest his refusal to supply electricity to the shack dwellers' settlements.
100,000 civil servants to strike on April 24 Workers in ten government departments and agencies will join thousands of other public and voluntary sector workers in a strike over pay.
Coastguards join day of strikes As previously reported on libcom, following their first ever strike coastguards are due to walk out alongside tens of thousands of other workers…
TV Times - 19 - 25 April 2008 This weeks highlight is Al Gore's renowned documentary critique of the effects and consequences of global warming.
April 24 – hundreds of thousands to walk out On Thursday April 24 thousands of civil servants, coastguards, council workers, FE lecturers and charity workers will join a national teachers…
South African workers refuse to move arms bound for Zimbabwe South African Transport Union members have announced they will not offload Chinese arms that are being shipped to crisis-torn Zimbabwe.
Civil society, citizenship and the politics of the (im)possible: rethinking militancy in Africa today Michael Neocosmos on the rising tide of politics at a distance from the state in…