1892 New Orleans General Strike An extract from Life in the Teamsters: The Civil Rights Movement documenting an early example of class solidarity in the segregationist southern…
Dockers Against Racism: an interview with Micky Fenn Interview with Micky Fenn, a socialist and trade unionist on the London Docks, discussing how he and other dock workers confronted racism among…
Racists, Reds and the Revolt on the Clyde, 1919 The story of a race riot that broke out in Glasgow, during the height of Red Clydeside militancy, when around 30 black sailors were chased out of…
Living The Dream with The Maritime Defence Committee during the 1998 Wharf Dispute It's been 20 years since the MUA dispute. What went on and what lessons are there for class struggle…
Dockworkers Organizing in the Port of Naples - Interview with SI COBAS An interview from the Transnational Social Strike Platform with Giuseppe D’Alesio of SI COBAS, a…
A serious public transport strike in the Netherlands There is some serious strike action going on in the Netherlands in regional public transport. This is like a breath of fresh air in a country…
Behind the 1951 waterfront lockout - Philip Ferguson This is a Marxist account of the 1951 waterfront lockout, one of the major instances of class…
The post-war strike wave in East, West, and Southern Africa From the end of the Second World War until the mid-'60s there was a wave of strikes in British East…
The 1945 Nigerian General Strike In 1945 a general strike involving tens of thousands of workers began with railway workers, then spread to other nationalised industries…
Strikes in Ghana, 1961 In September 1961, a wildcat strike broke out amongst the railway works of Takoradi-Sekondi, spreading quickly to Accra and Kumasi and lasting…
Wobblies and Cossacks: The 1913 great strike A short history of the 1913 New Zealand general strike by Ciaran Doolin.
Port Adelaide struggles, 1928-1931 Photo gallery of the strikes and riots at Port Adelaide in Australia which began in 1928 when the employers introduced new working conditions…