The Corporation (Documentary) The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary is…
Separate agreement leads to expulsion of FIOM from Fiat Italian factories Thousands of FIAT workers will no longer be represented by FIOM, the main Italian union of…
Protest in support of 'locked out' Ontario workers Over 10,000 people come out to support 'locked out' engineers in Canada. Their employers (Caterpillar) are reporting record profits yet are…
Is there really no option but suicide for so many workers? This is just a reflection in light of the reports that last week there was a protest by 300 Chinese…
Unilever workers begin pension fight back Today, hundreds of Unilever workers converged on the company HQ in London to protest against the 'downgrading' of their pension schemes. The…
Sir, there's a mouse in my soup! On 3rd of January workers at Lin Electronics Factory in Dongguan, Guangdong, started strike action after finding a dead mouse in their soup,…
States of emergency: cultures of revolt in Italy from 1968 to 1978 - Robert Lumley The complete text of the definitive book on the mass social movements in Italy in the 1960s and 70s…
Player piano - Kurt Vonnegut Vonnegut's first novel about a permanantly unemployed working class, dispossessed by mangerial engineers and automation.
Italy 1920: When 600,000 workers seized control of their workplaces Tom Wetzel details the Italian Factory Occupations of 1920, which matured beyond conventional trade unionism and at its height involved about 600,000 workers. This article was originally presented as a talk at the Conference on Workers' Self-Organization in St. Louis in 1988.
The shoe nazi This is a story about race, class, and poverty, from a friend who writes a blog anonymously as Invisible Man.
Chinese police arrest strikers Police in Shanghai have arrested around a dozen workers following ongoing strike action at an electronics factory.
Where has all my money gone you vile insidious woman? The great privatisation swindle has meant that we are indirectly paying twice for some services…
