Bloodshed in Bayonne October 8, 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the strike at Standard Oil’s Bayonne, N.J., refineries. In the course of the ten-day strike, 4 people…
Break the silence on Azerbaijan oil workers' deaths In Azerbaijan, oil workers and their families are demanding answers about offshore safety standards, but the authorities have stayed silent for…
Labour Movements and Opposition Groups in Saudi Arabia: 1950-1975 An article about the growth of the Saudi Labour movement and additional radical opposition groups, focussing on two strikes at the ARAMCO oil company in 1953 and 1956.
Protests over workers' deaths met by police and fascist repression A fire at the Hellenic Petroleum(EL.PE) refinery cost the lives of four workers back in May. Since…
Activists jailed in Azerbaijan, the house that BP built A protest against Azerbaijan’s crackdown on political dissent will be staged in London this Friday,…
Reflections on sabotage, theirs and ours - Jeff Shantz On capitalist and worker sabotage in environmental struggle.
Libyan petrodollars and the overthrow of Gaddafi A speculative blog on the NATO-backed overthrow of Libyan dictator Col Gaddafi, looking at whether Gaddafi's refusal to recycle petrodollars…
A short account of sabotage at a US army oil depot A short, personal account of worker and army veteran sabotage of oil supplies to the military towards the end of the Vietnam war.
Oil, arms and the Gulf War - Joe Stork Joe Stork examines the Iran-Iraq war from the viewpoint of its main material aspects - oil and arms.
Après moi le déluge! Fossil fuel abolitionism and the carbon bubble - part 2 In part two of this two-part article, we look at the parallels between fossil-fuel abolitionism and…
Après moi le déluge! Fossil fuel abolitionism and the carbon bubble - part 1 In part one of this two-part article, we look at the so-called ‘carbon bubble’ – assets priced based…
Solidarity with oil workers in Las Heras, Argentina! As the Argentine state makes a grab for oil, a class war burns...
