1946: Haitian Student Strike In 1946 a group of Marxist students opposed to the Dictatorship of Elie Lescot, started a student movement that grew into a general strike…
1953: Prisoner Strikes at the Vorkuta Gulag In 1953 following news of Stalin's death inmates in gulag complex in Vorkuta struck in protest of their conditions. In response the Soviet…
1967-74: Ethiopia's Student Movement The absolute regime of Emperor Haile Selassie was first challenged by university students.
1935: Cuban General Strike After the defeat of the Dictator Gerardo Machado Cuba was governed by a Junta headed by Batista and Mendieta. In 1935 another General Strike sort to forced the Junta to restore civilian rule. In response Batista unleashed a wave of state terror.
The German coast uprising of 1811 A short history of possibly the largest slave uprising in the United States, in Louisiana in 1811, written by Rhae Lynn Barnes.
Meydan Gazette: "We are being cornered" Late last month the editor of Meydan anarchist newspaper in Istanbul was sentenced to a year and three months in prison for “supporting terror,”…
Rural Landless Workers Movement of Brazil - Roger Burbach An article on the early history of largest organisation of landless peasants in Brazil. The article…
The human costs of militarization in Latin America - Arturo Jimenez An article about the establishment of Operation Condor, an alliance between multiple right wing…
Free Markets and Death Squads - Ricky Baldwin A general account of union busting and state terrorism of Haitian workers organisations, including incidents carried out by reformist President…
US Proxies Terrorising Workers in Haiti... Again: Ricky Baldwin An article about the use of paramilitaries and the Dominican army to terrorise Haitian workers and the lengths employers will go to break strikes.
CIA Death Squads: Allan Nairn Allan Nairn on the decades of direct CIA involvement in Guatemalan death squads.
Haiti Under the Gun: Allan Nairn An article detailing the collaboration between the US government and the paramilitary FRAPH in Haiti in the 1990's.