Max Rennebohm

In 1989 students, teachers and civil servants in Benin began strike actions in protest at the governments freezing of scholarships and the four month delay in wage payments in 1988. The government's stalling and repression dragged the campaign on into 1990 and escalated the conflict to the point where the regime crumbled.

A series of protest demonstration and a General Strike led to the downfall of the Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla and the restoration of free…

In 1946 a group of Marxist students opposed to the Dictatorship of Elie Lescot, started a student movement that grew into a general strike…

Article on the history of the campaign to stop nuclear weapons tests on the Alaskan Island on…

In response to economic depression the Chilean state became a Dictatorship. In response Chilean…

In the winter of 1971-72 the economy of South West Africa (Namibia) was shutdown by a general strike…