Call for support as anti-Shell picket faces repression Latest news from the struggle against Shell in the West of Ireland, as the state prepares to strike.
1976: The fight for useful work at Lucas Aerospace History of how arms company workers struggled against closure and for a change in their work from weapons manufacture to socially useful…
1883-today: The radical history of Aussie rules football A history of Aussie rules football and its intersection with working class politics since the first…
2000: Cellatex chemical plant occupation An account of a group of 153 sacked Cellatex chemical workers in France who won a massively improved redundancy deal due to militant struggle,…
1971-1974: Green bans by builders in Australia A history of the massive campaign of industrial action by building workers which protected the environment and local communities by enacting…
The Kelly's Bush green ban, 1971 A short account of how construction workers saved the Kelly's Bush area of park land in Australia from development by refusing to work, and …
Abyss (Abîme) - Jaime Semprun A powerful post-Chernobyl critique of nuclear power, its fallout, the science and society that produced it: a critique that remains,…
Precious metals - struggle and repression in Papua The battle over Papua’s copper and gold deposits is heating up as locals fight back against their exploiters, reports Rob Ray
Chemical World This article was originally in Black Flag #208, published in 1996. It was written by a member of the grassroots Communities Against Toxics, who publish ToxCat.
India: Villagers lock down iron factory Jamshedpur: Annoyed by the air pollution caused by Sidhi Vinayak Metacom Limited, a sponge iron unit at Chowka under Seraikela-Kharsawan district…