Shirking 9 to 5: diary of a reluctant temp An agency worker recalls several years' temping in London, trying to help his co-workers and do as little work as possible.
Fools and their "gold-plated" pensions Public sector workers have been fools. No more so than private sector workers, for sure, but it has been a breathtaking level of foolishness…
Guy Debord: National Treasure? Translation of news article published in 14 June 2009 edition of "Le Monde": in order to pay off Ms Alice Debord, the Bibliotheque nationale…
One dead in Guadeloupe strike As Guadeloupe's general strike against rising prices spreads across the Caribbean, a union official is shot dead.
Resistance to job cuts at the University of Salford gathers steam Around 150 job losses have been forecast by opponents as part of large cuts across the university,…
Greek general strike to go ahead The planned general strike for later today, 10 December is still scheduled to go ahead, but unions bowed to the government and called off protest…
Pay: what went wrong in 2007? Libcom's analysis of what went wrong with the industrial disputes over the rising cost of living in 2007, and how to do things better in 2008.
Long lost wildcat strikes in the UK, 1960s - 1990s Interesting article with snippets of analysis and often personal anecdotes about a number of unofficial strikes in the UK since the 1960s.
Titan prisons: "consultation" ends, construction set to begin With the required political processes out of the way, the building of the 2,500 capacity jails is set to begin.
Half a million council workers strike over pay Local government workers across England, Northern Ireland and Wales struck for two days alongside civil servants against sub-inflation pay rises.
More workers set to join council strike Up to 100,000 civil servants could join 600,000 local government workers on strike in July, as 40,000 more council workers in Unite pledge to strike too.
