The US industrial workers’ movement Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward analyse the movement of industrial workers and the role of the unions following the great depression, from…
Cultural revolution - Lotta Continua This article gives a brief overview of some of the social changes that took place in the mass struggles in the late 60’s.
Wave of strikes sweeps Greece A wave of strikes culminating on Thursdays pan-worker mobilisation has been the response to the scaremongering of the government amidst the…
Fighting an increase in production quota Paul Krehbiel tells how he and his co-workers carried out a slowdown in a Buffalo glass factory in 1968; they succeeded in preventing management…
Poland: Export platform takes a dive Wildcat Germany on the situation of the working class in Poland in the run-up to and during the financial crisis of 2008-9.
Account of a well-prepared wildcat strike Nick, an assembly line worker, recounts sabotage and a walkout at his factory when the workers' contract expired.
Class conflicts in the transformation of China Aufheben's excellent account of the development and transformation of China and the Chinese working class from the time of Mao until today.
Timex strike, 1993 - European Counter Network 1993 strike at an electronics factory in Dundee against layoffs and a wage-freeze.
SNECMA aerospace workers strike 1988 - The Red Menace Report on strikes at three French aeronautics plants in 1988, which quickly spread beyond union control.
1892: The Homestead Strike Extracts from Louis Adamic, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman describing the Homestead Strike in 1892, and the circumstances of Berkman’s shooting of Henry Clay Frick, the head of the Carnegie Steel Company’s strike-breaking operation.
Wind turbine manufacturing workers occupy company offices Workers from the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight who are set to lose their jobs are…
Workers threaten to blow up another factory Workers at Nortel France join the gas cylinder gang but their threats may be empty.
