The railway hamlet - Chaiwat Chatcharin Chaiwat's short fiction about the gruesome workplace death of a Thai railway worker and the identifical fate of his son years later.
Brazil: popular revolt and its limits June 2018 marks five years since the wave of protests against the price of collective transportation, which shook the streets of hundreds of…
A serious public transport strike in the Netherlands There is some serious strike action going on in the Netherlands in regional public transport. This is like a breath of fresh air in a country…
SNCF: The unions and the parties on the left of capital have sabotaged the strike by channelling it into defence of the rail company and the state-boss. Only a big jump in workers autonomy can save it! A translation of a leaflet distributed to striking rail workers in France. Produced…
The post-war strike wave in East, West, and Southern Africa From the end of the Second World War until the mid-'60s there was a wave of strikes in British East…
The 1945 Nigerian General Strike In 1945 a general strike involving tens of thousands of workers began with railway workers, then spread to other nationalised industries…
Strikes in Ghana, 1961 In September 1961, a wildcat strike broke out amongst the railway works of Takoradi-Sekondi, spreading quickly to Accra and Kumasi and lasting…
The East African Railway Strike, 1959-60: labour’s challenge of inter-territorialism David Hyde examines a pivotal working-class struggle which erupted within East Africa’s transport…
India: Students occupy Vishwavidyalaya metro station to protests against fare hike Students from Delhi University occupied gate 3 of the Vishwavidyalaya metro station yesterday to…
Hundreds refuse to cross picket line in wildcat Crossrail strike More than 200 workers at the flagship rail construction project have downed tools today in…
World War I struggles in Switzerland An informative account of the wave of working class struggles which took place during and immediately following World War I in Switzerland, by…
Rail workers are striking for passenger rights but no-one’s talking about that Train conductors, represented by the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT),…
