Argentina: wildcat strike on Buenos Aires Metro Metro Workers in Buenos Aires launched a 24-hour wildcat strike in protest at an agreement between management and their union.
Argentina: railway station burnt by passengers Angry passengers attacked and destroyed offices, before burning them down in protest at the atrocious state of the privatised service.
Zimbabwe: Wildcat strikes and unrest escalates We have received reports that wildcat strikes are spreading across Zimbabwe as workers demand pay which will match massive inflation.
Egyptian cement workers refuse buy-out and propose self-management The Cement workers in Tora, Helwan and Suez are refusing an early buyout scheme their Italian…
Deutsche Telekom strike continues despite government intervention Deutsche Telekom AG employees who will enter the second week of a full-blown strike Monday are still…
Glasgow and the Wobblies The Industrial Workers of the World's influence in Glasgow is not so well known, but it had considerable influence on the shop stewards movement…
Bernard Reichenbach:The KAPD in retrospect - An interview with a member of the Communist Workers Party of Germany A former member of the anti-parliamentary, councilist KAPD describes his…
A review of Joe Jacob's 'Out of the Ghetto' - Al Richardson A review of the late Joe Jacob's excellent autobiography. Growing up in London's Jewish East End, Joe was variously a Communist Party militant, anti-fascist, Trotskyist, and in his later years a member of the Solidarity libertarian socialist group.
Senegal: seven teachers injured by police The teachers were on the way home from a general meeting that had been held in the state capital Ziguinchor when they were attacked by police.
TV Times - 19-25 May 2007 A major theme this week is analysis of countries in the East with documentaries on the Middle East, China and Kosovo/Serbia.
Junior doctors strike in Barbados Junior doctors at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) are planning to take industrial action today.
