2014: Vermont Migrant Farmworkers March and Picket for Return of Withheld Pay An acocunt of picketing by Migrant workers at a dairy in Vermont over poor living and working conditions and wage theft.
1850: Bulgarian Peasants Revolt A short history of an uprising by (mostly) Bulgarian peasants in the waning Ottoman Empire. The peasants fought to abolish their feudal duties…
1968-1969: Pakistani students, workers, and peasants bring down a dictator An account of the waves of strikes and protests against the inequality, brutality and corruption of…
Tea workers: Poorest of the poor, in Bangladesh On May 20, 1921, around 30,000 tea labourers left their workplace in Sylhet region and started walking towards Chandpur Meghna Ghat. When they…
Hog farms, toxic water, and more toxic prisons in Texas and beyond Keith "Malik" Washington writes on the environmental impact of prison-run hog farms. LIBCOM…
Sylhet tea-garden workers strike for higher wages Workers of twenty two tea gardens in Sylhet district today went on a work abstention demanding 16 months’ unpaid wages and a wage increase.
Workers' protest rally in Kamalganj two tea gardens, Bangladesh Activist Tea Workers said that the workers 'wages agreement for tea workers at the end of every two…
