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As the recession begins to bite in France, transport, education and other services are brought to a halt by a national strike demanding action on…

UNISON, Unite and the GMB request a cost of living pay rise for council workers for 2009-10 of just 0.9%.

A brief description of social conditions in post-Civil War Spain followed by an account of the Barcelona general strike of 1951. The events in…

A short history of the 1970-71 uprising by workers in Poland which saw strikes and occupations at workplaces across the country. Although…

As supermarkets continue to hike their prices, it seems a response is being planned – and not before time. But will it work?

French and Spanish truckers blockaded roads on the border of south-western France on 9th June in…

An inflation rate of as high as 23% has provoked more walkouts in Vietnam's manufacturing industry.

Two more shoe factories in Vietnam were on strike this month, as 4,000 workers walked out in Ho Chi Minh City while 3,000 struck at a Taiwanese owned factory in southern Long An province.

Palestinian public service workers walked off their jobs Tuesday at the beginning of a two-day protest against their government's efforts to force them to pay their utility bills.

In 1831, Merthyr Tydfil, iron workers struck against redundancies, rising prices and bailiffs, leading to several thousand workers involved in…

From July-September 1918, Japan was swept with a wave of riots from rural fishing villages to major industrial centres and coal fields, in what…

In April 1932 at Vichuga, Ivanovo Industrial Region (IPO), USSR, 16,000 textile workers struck at several factories and temporarily took control…