Vietnamese workers stage walkout over management bullying Over 300 workers at a Taiwanese company, Hwata Vina, in Ho Chi Minh City went on strike July 3 after…
Crackdown in South Korea as President Lee emphasises need for "labour market flexibility" Nineteen former workers at the Kor-Tek guitar and bass factory in Dungchon, Seoul,…
Taratuta, Olga Ilyinichna 1876-1938 (real name Elka Golda Elievna Ruvinskaia) A short biography of Olga Taratuta the “grandmother” of the Russian anarchist movement and a founder…
Okna Rabien: Calluousness and indifference towards workers in the name of profit. Dozens of Phillipino workers face deportation after problems with their employers at Okna Rabien near Lodz.
Electronics workers save their jobs in France After an occupation and strike lasting over six weeks workers at the FCI Microconnections in Mantes-la-Jolie have saved their jobs.
1980: Poland mass strikes - Henri Simon Henri Simon's account of the successful strike wave which swept Poland in the summer of 1980 when the government raised the price of meat.
China in crisis: reason to panic? Prol-Position's outline and analysis of the development and extent of the 2008-9 financial crisis's impact on China, and its implications for…
Institutionalization from below: The unions and social movements - 1970s Italy The chapter of Robert Lumley's excellent book on the mass struggles in Italy of the 60s and 70s…
Continued tension in Greece with strikes, riots and urban guerrillas A second tense week of strikes and protest marches in Greece seeing hospital doctors, public…
More job cuts announced, more to come As the economic recession restates its international nature, further job losses are to be announced in Jamaica and Ireland, while Swedish…
Galvanising the steel strike, 1980 - Solidarity An article from Solidarity on the British Steel Corporation strike of 1980, which was one of the early blows of the Thatcher government against…
