Ireland: Energy workers plan strikes Workers at the Electricity Supply Board are currently threatening strike action against potential privatisation.
Iraq: Electricity workers on strike in Kirkuk Workers at an electricity plant in Kirkuk were on strike yesterday whilst others protested in Baghdad.
A year of our lives - 20 years since the great coal strike of 1984-1985 Dave Douglass looks back on the great miners strike, twenty years on. Recalling information about…
Notes on the miners strike, 1984-1985 Notes on the strike of UK mine workers against closures and to save their union, the NUM. The article contains interesting information about the…
Wildcat strikes hit Zimbabwe Wildcat strikes for better pay that have hit Zimbabwe could trigger wider work boycotts and spontaneous street protests, escalating political…
Cambrian Combine miners strike and Tonypandy riot, 1910 - Sam Lowry A short history of a strike by miners in South Wales in 1910 which led to a series of confrontations…
Come and wet this truncheon - Dave Douglass Classic pamphlet by miner and anarcho-syndicalist Dave Douglass on political policing during the British Miners’ Strike of 1984/5 - when the…
Wildcat strike at Alstom factory Sixty workers at the Alstom plant in Belfort have been on strike indefinitely since the 13th of November, demanding and end of year bonus of…
Halemba mine tragedy: the high costs of greed and outsourcing No worker should not have gone into the mine that day. But Halemba sent in some unqualified contractors. Laure Akai reports.
Polish miners killed, trapped in massive blast 8 miners have been killed and 15 more remain trapped following an explosion in a deep coal mine yesterday in Ruda Slaska, Southern Poland…
Colorado miners strike and Columbine mine massacre, 1927 - Sam Lowry Short history of a strike by miners in Colorado in 1927 and the massacre of strikers at the…
Update on Iranian workers' struggles A round-up of recent struggles going on in Iran, including textile and petrochemical workers' strikes and opposition to new changes in labour law…
