Namibia: Miners in wildcat strike About 200 workers have gone on a wildcat strike in protest against the sacking of a union leader, disrupting production at the Exxaro Rosh Pinah…
UK: Coca-Cola workers strike over pay Workers at a Coca-Cola plant have begun a 48-hour strike, followed by an overtime ban, after rejecting a below-inflation pay rise.
1886: The Bay View Massacre The little known history of the massacre that occurred in Milwaukee, when 7,000 building workers and 5,000 Polish workers demanded the eight-hour…
Like a summer with a thousand Julys …and other seasons… Expansive overview and analysis of the early 1980s strikes and riots in the UK.
1962: The Novocherkassk tragedy An account of the workers uprising in Novocherkassk, USSR, which lasted from June 1-3 and ended in a massacre and mass arrests.
1911-1970s: Unions and workers: limitations and possibilities, by Martin Glaberman Detroit auto-worker Martin Glaberman analyses the bureaucratisation and decline of the US trade…
‘General strike’ spreads across Peru As an indefinite teachers strike continues into its 12th day, farmers, miners and construction workers joined the protests, with one farmer shot…
The Winter of Discontent: an introduction An overview of the UK's 1979 "Winter of Discontent" strike wave, from the Revolt Against an Age of Plenty site. Subtitled History and class…
The Vichuga uprising, 1932 In April 1932 at Vichuga, Ivanovo Industrial Region (IPO), USSR, 16,000 textile workers struck at several factories and temporarily took control…
Zambia: Mine workers wildcat strike Workers at the First Quantum Kansanshi copper mine have been refusing to work since Wednesday when they noticed that an agreed pay rise had not…
South Africa: 260,000 workers on strike Striking workers in the metal and engineering industries said yesterday it was time they got a slice of the profits that they worked so hard to…
Miners' strikes in North and South America Miners in Canada, Mexico and Peru are either currently striking or planning strike action.
