1932: Belfast Outdoor Relief Strike The Falls and the Shankhill united, Catholics and Protestants fighting together. That is the story of the Outdoor Relief Strike launched by the…
1931: Barcelona mass rent strike The story of one of the biggest rent strikes of the 20th century where more than 100,000 people faced down the landlords and the government winning improvements for many tenants.
1926: British general strike A short history of Britain’s only ever general strike which lasted 10 days and was called in support of locked-out coal miners.
1922: The Hong Kong strike The history of a huge general strike in Hong Kong which won many concessions, including a 20% pay hike.
1918-1921: The Italian factory occupations and Biennio Rosso A brief history of the Italian Biennio Rosso (two red years) and the mass factory occupations of…
1919: The Seattle general strike A general strike of 100,000 workers, which saw the city shut down and all essential services provided under workers' control.
La Canadiense and Barcelona general strike, 1919 - Sam Lowry A short history of the Barcelona general strike of 1919 which began after the sacking of eight…
1919: The 40-hours strike The 40 Hours strike led by the Clyde Workers' Committee was the most radical strike seen on Clydeside in terms of both its tactics and its…
1915: The Glasgow rent strike The history of a months-long rent strike of 30,000 Glasgow residents against profiteering landlords, forcing the government to freeze rents for…
The Lawrence textile strike, 1912 - Sam Lowry A short history of the strike of 20,000 textile workers, mostly women and girls who included native and immigrant workers, which won big…
The Pullman railway strike, 1894 - Howard Zinn Howard Zinn on the history of the militant struggle of workers at the Pullman railway car company in Chicago against wage cuts and sackings, in…
The door to the garden: feminism and Operaismo - Mariarosa Dalla Costa A paper on the history of Italian Marxist feminism given at a seminar on Operaismo ('workerism')…
