Haitians overthrow regime, 1984-1986 Article on the two year long campaign of demonstrations and strikes that toppled the Dictatorship of Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier.
Grand National Holiday, and Congress of the Productive Classes: William Benbow Published in 1832 this pamphlet is possibly the earliest published advocacy for a general strike as…
The Chartist Grand National Holiday: The General Strike of 1839 An article by Past Tense on the first attempted general strike called by the Chartist movement for August 1839. It also compares the ideas of the strikes main proponent, William Benbow with other theorists on Mass and General Strikes.
To escape Trump's America, we need to bring the militant labor tactics of 1946 back to the future The last general strike in the US was in Oakland in 1946. That year there were 6…
The general strike of 1842 A detailed, full-length history of the UK Chartist general strike of 1842 against pay cuts and for universal male suffrage, by Mick Jenkins with…
Riots in the Potteries in 1842 The Potteries represent the peak of the general strike of 1842. In addition to shutting down most mines mills and workshops in the area, groups…
Ovambo migrant workers general strike for rights, Namibia: 1971-72 In the winter of 1971-72 the economy of South West Africa (Namibia) was shutdown by a general strike…
21st October: a day of general strike On 21 October, over 1.3 million workers took part in a general strike called by a number of base trade unions (USB, S.I. Cobas, Unicobas, Adl…
The Iceland women’s strike, 1975 A short history of the strike, or day off, by 90% of women in Iceland for equality with men on 24 October, 1975, written by Steven Johns.
A general strike starting from refinery workers at the caribbean island of Curacao - awaiting new masters from China The strike of a week of refinery workers, followed by the general strike on…
The general strike of 1842 As many as half a million workers may have been caught up in a strike wave which linked demands for the Charter and an end to pay cuts. This page…
Against the conceptual dumbing down of the 2016 “movement” in France - Mouvement Communiste/Kolektivně proti Kapitălu This is a leaflet criticising the wildly inflated claims made about the recent …
