Battle Ground Athens: second general strike leads to pitched battles More than 150,000 people took to the streets of Athens against the austerity measures in a mass…
Public sector strike paralyzes Greece The 24h public sector general strike supplemented by private sector strikes has brought Greece to a standstill with no airplanes flying in or out…
General strike 1926 - further reading guides libcom's guide to further reading around the UK general strike of 1926.
General Strike: France 1968 - A factory by factory account Andre Hoyles analyses the development, organisation and end of the mass strike in France, 1968, with…
The Seattle general strike of 1919 The detailed official history of the strike, in which the city was taken over by the workers, by the History Committee of the General Strike…
Irish public sector general strike 2009 photo gallery A selection of images from picket lines across Dublin during the nationwide public sector strike on…
Unions Narrowly Avert General Strike In B.C., Canada - Wage Slave X Article looking at the near-General Strike in 2004 in Canada. The strike was stopped at the last…
South Korean government arrests 450 workers as general strike seems imminent Police apprehended more than 450 labor activists Saturday after a violent protest in Daejeon which…
Belgian general strike diary, 1960 - Maurice Brinton Maurice Brinton's vivid and captivating first hand account of the massive general strike in Belgium in 1960-61 against a new law "loi unique" to…
New nationwide general strike hits France Hundreds of thousands of French workers are expected to join the country's second nationwide strike in two months.
Martinique general strike called off Organisers of a crippling 38-day anti-inflation strike in the French island of Martinique lifted their protest Saturday with the signing of a…
Guadeloupe general strike comes to an end Union leaders on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe have agreed to end a 44-day-old general strike after most of their demands were met.