general strikes

An account of the general srike of public sector workers in Chad.

In the following essay members of Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira, a member group of the Anarkismo…

A short history of the general strike in May 1946 in Rochester against the sacking of hundreds of municipal workers, written by Jon Garlock.

A short account of the mass struggles in China from 1925 up to the Shanghai insurrection of 1927 and its crushing by the nationalist forces of…

In 2005 civil servants in Tonga began a wildcat strike for higher wages, the strike grew to include many other public sector workers and took on…

A series of protest demonstration and a General Strike led to the downfall of the Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla and the restoration of free…

Grievances over working conditions and a lack of state primary schools lead to several strikes in 1994 on the two pacific islands.

In March 1991 what Mali experienced what became known as the March revolution. A series of protests by students and democracy activists supported…

In 1985 workers and students protested and struck against worsening living conditions and greater repression, in particular the imposition of…

In 1956 Haitian workers and students turned to mass demonstrations, blockades and a general strike to rid itself of a Dictator Paul Eugène…

Workers and students in neighbouring El Salvador had driven out their dictator by using a general strike to cripple the regime. That same year…

Workers in the southern Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil struck due to increased economic pressures. The strike brought the city to a halt and gained…