Strikes spread across Zimbabwe Teachers, nurses, doctors and civil servants have been taking industrial action since last Wednesday calling for an immediate review of salaries…
Strike threat resurfaces at Royal Mail Hot on the heels of the wildcat strikes over pay in 2007, Royal Mail faces the threat of a new round of industrial action.
Vallejo, California: Unions help city with lay-offs The city of Vallejo in the San Francisco Bay Area may be the first city in California history to declare bankruptcy. However several unions are helping the city to cut jobs in an effort to ward off bankruptcy.
TV Times - 1 - 7 March 2008 This week's pick is a documentary which attempts to highlight the disenfranchisment felt by the UK's white working class.
Mexico: violence at university workers strike in Mexico City A tense strike and occupation at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) in the southeast of…
Bauer, Marx and religion - David McLellan McLellan discusses Bruno Bauer's critique of religion and its enduring influence on the young Marx.
Urban riots and their reportage - Tom Jennings, 1992 Tom Jennings’ 1992 essay on current affairs media and their coverage of urban riots
Vera Drake, dir. Mike Leigh, 2004. Film review – Tom Jennings Vera Drake vividly portrays the paradoxes of backstreet abortion without passing judgement.
Nepal; Terai ethnic strike ends with concessions The general strike called by Madhesi ethnic groups of the southern Terai plains region has ended with most of their demands granted.
Saul Williams, The Fader Label, 2005. Music review Review which finds that Saul Williams fails to translate potent political polemics into poetic musical magic...
Modern capitalism and revolution - Paul Cardan Paul Cardan (Cornelius Castoriadis) attempts to describe and analyse the features and dynamics of the fully-industrialised capitalist societies of the early 1960s.
Ethnic-political tensions fracturing the Nepalese nation-state In the Terai region of Nepal, on the southern plains, an indefinite general strike has been ongoing…