Oakland dockers honour anti-war picket lines Oakland Port anti-war and labor protesters close SSA terminal for the day. ILWU 10 & ILWU 34 members refuse to cross lines.
Fare strike - San Francisco 2005 Pamphlet with first-hand accounts and analysis of the self-organised 2005 fare strike, in PDF and text format.
Post mortem on the San Francisco fare strike, 2005 - Tom Wetzel Tom Wetzel analyses the fare strike of San Francisco public transport riders in 2005. He examines what ways of organising can be used to win struggles and form the basis of a new society.
Sailors end strike and win back pay Eighteen Filipino sailors striking over $360,000 in unpaid back pay ended their strike yesterday in Long Beach, California.
2003-2004: Los Angeles supermarket strike The history of a huge five-month strike and lockout of 70,000 supermarket workers in California, which ended in defeat.
US: Shattuck Cinema workers are going union Landmark Shattuck Cinema workers are fed up. Years of bad hours, poor pay, a hostile work environment and the demoralsing treatment from theatre…
LA '92: The context of a proletarian uprising Distorted by the bourgeois press, reduced to a mere 'race riot' by many on the left, the L.A. rebellion was the most serious urban uprising this…
1946: The Oakland general strike - Stan Weir An account by Stan Weir of the gen strike in Oakland, California, in 1946.
Fighting the fare hike in San Francisco A report on organising that is going on here in San Francisco against the rise in fares for buses and trams.
Review: Bad: the autobiography of James Carr Aufheben's review of James Carr's autobiography. Carr was a gang-member and jail-bird in 1960's California, became deeply politicized while…
