1973: Prisoners Take Control of Walpole Prison In 1973 inmates at Walpole prison took advantage of a prison guards strike to take control of the day to day running of the facility.
1908-10: Spokane Free Speech Fight Account of the free speech and anti job sharking campaign carried out by the Spokane Wobblies.
1977-88: Brazilian Rubber Tappers Campaign Against Deforestation Article about the attempt of Rubber Tappers to organise that was linked to the struggle to protect…
2011-12: Disabled Bolivians March to La Paz In 2011 a group of disabled Bolivians marched through the country to the capitol to push for increased support and to combat stigma. They were…
1956: Haitian General Strike Against Dictator In 1956 Haitian workers and students turned to mass demonstrations, blockades and a general strike to rid itself of a Dictator Paul Eugène…
1944: Guatemala General Strike Overthrows Dictator Workers and students in neighbouring El Salvador had driven out their dictator by using a general strike to cripple the regime. That same year…
1922: Guayaquil General Strike Workers in the southern Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil struck due to increased economic pressures. The strike brought the city to a halt and gained…
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.