Western Europe

Students, teachers and school employees have been protesting against the closure of D. João de Castro Secondary School in Lisbon.

A short biography of Swiss building worker, labour organiser and anarcho-syndicalist Lucien Tronchet.

A short biography of Vietnamese libertarian socialist and metal worker Ngo Van Xuyet.

German public sector workers expanded their week-old strike to most of the country on Monday in an escalating dispute over plans to make them work longer hours.

German public sector workers expanded their week-old strike to most of the country on Monday in an escalating dispute over plans to make them work longer hours.

In Stockholm, Gothenburg and Helsinki, commuters are taking the initiative in the fight for decent, free public transportation.

Archive of the day-by-day reports and updates, as well as background information on the victorious…

Retail outlet Dunnes has achieved a new low in union-bashing by sacking shop steward Joanne Delaney in November 2005 for wearing a union badge.

The labour movement has found internationally, it seems, an issue around which to mobilize: the Directive on Services in the Internal Market, otherwise known as the Bolkestein Directive.

Pilots with Scandinavian airline SAS have called off their strike after three days. The dispute, which grounded over 1,000 flights and spread across two countries was ended after SAS took pilots' unions to court in Denmark, Norway and Sweden demanding over €1,000 compensation from each pilot.

Workers for airline Alitalia at Rome's main airport have agreed to call off a week of unofficial industrial action following a request from unions.

Hundreds of flights have been cancelled and tens of thousands of passengers stranded as the Scandinavian airlines pilots' wildcat strike…