France: More workers join strikes Hundreds of thousands of health workers, civil servants, printers postal workers and air traffic controllers yesterday joined transport and…
NUJ strike ballot in Coventry following unanimous vote The NUJ chapel at the Coventry Telegraph are balloting for strike action in a stand against…
France: strikes at financial paper Les Echos Staff at the Daily paper voted to strike for a third time in three weeks after management reneged on promises.
France: One-day strike at Nice-Matin Staff at the newspaper group Nice-Matin went on strike on Saturday, demanding assurances about the future of the newspaper and of their jobs.
1919-1945: The Proletarischer Zeitgeist A short history of the radical German workers' newspaper Proletarischer Zeitgeist from its birth in the AAUE union through its political…
Telegraph journalists vote for strike action NUJ members at the Telegraph newspaper have voted 76% in favour of strike action. Staff are unhappy with work pattern changes following a move to…
The Australian IWW and 'Direct Action', 1914-2000 A history of the once highly-influential Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union and its publication Direct Action in Australia.
Spilling the Spanish beans - George Orwell George Orwell's 1937 essay on the deceptions in the British press which obscured the revolutionary character of events in Spain in favour of a…
1972: The Quebec general strike The story of one of the largest working class rebellions in American history. 300,000 workers participated in North America's largest general…
CPE protesters turn towards direct, decentralised action Round-up of just some of the day's events so far, including media strikes, road blockades and office and university occupations.