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…
1947 General Strike, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) An account by T. B. Dissanayake of the 1947 general strike in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka
The general strike and Irish independence Interesting article by John Dorney on the syndicalist tactic of the general strike and its relationship with the struggle for Irish independence…
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…
The Nairobi General Strike, 1950: From Protest to Insurgency The Nairobi General Strike [1950] was the culmination of Kenya’s post war strike wave and urban…
World War I struggles in Switzerland An informative account of the wave of working class struggles which took place during and immediately following World War I in Switzerland, by…
General strike against state repression in Catalonia Workers in Catalonia have launched a general strike today in response to the brutal police repression following Sunday's Catalan independence…
Wobblies and Cossacks: The 1913 great strike A short history of the 1913 New Zealand general strike by Ciaran Doolin.
Strike and protests against Macron's employment law Four unions called a general strike for today against French President Macron’s new employment law, this is often referred to as Macron 2 or…
London mass strike, 1889 A short account of the mass strike in London which spread from the great docks strike in the East End and peaked on 1 September with up to 300…
2007: Chad Government Employees Strike An account of the general srike of public sector workers in Chad.