Review: Local 8 shows interracial unionism key to victory A review by Matt White of Peter Cole's book, Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in…
Ben Fletcher, Local 8, and Me - Peter Cole An article by author Peter Cole about his fascination with the historical IWW's storied 'Local 8'.
Review: Ben Fletcher of Local 8 Docks A review by Jon Bekken of Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, a book edited by Peter Cole.
Port trucker strike Ningbo, China On 18 August 2014 over 10,000 port truckers in Ningbo, China, went on strike, not having had a raise in over 8 years. The strike lasted almost a…
Zim ship sits unloaded at Port of Oakland After Zim Integrated Shipping Service ship Zim Piraeus was kept offshore due to a pro-Gaza protest at the Port of Oakland on Saturday, August 16,…
Choke points: mapping an anticapitalist counter-logistics in California - Degenerate Communism While it is indisputably within the sphere of production that the value-form is…
Hong Kong dockers strike -- US speaking tour In the spring of 2013, a 40 day strike by 500 dockworkers at the Hong Kong Port aroused massive support in Hong Kong society and throughout the…
Scab bus blocked at Port of Vancouver On February 26th, 2014, 30 community members and Union supporters confronted and temporarily stalled a bus transporting a scab workforce to the…
Chile port strike resumes Dockers in Chile ended a 3-week strike that inflicted over $100 million (US) in damages to both the lucrative agricultural export sector -- at a…
Longshore workers strike Port of Baltimore More than 2,000 longshore members of the International Longshoremen's Association walked off the job at the Port of Baltimore, the 12th largest…
Bread riots down supply chains: From Cairo to Longview One of the forms in which the working class exists today is at the various nodal points along global…
The dock workers strike and San Francisco general strike, 1934 - Jeremy Brecher Jeremy Brecher's history of the 1934 strike of dock workers and the San Francisco general strike it…