The Beloit Iron Works and the submergence of class struggle The history of class struggle in the Beloit Iron Works and how the company responded to it and kept…
Origins of the job structure in the steel industry - Katherine Stone Katherine Stone analyses how workers' control in the US steel industry in the 19th century was…
Tension in Greece before critical weekend Strikes, marches, blockades, occupations and nights of fire are setting the climate before the critical weekend of the first anniversary of Alexandros Grigoropoulos murder.
Homicide as a weapon of the weak in postsocialist China: some recent incidents Report on the struggle of Guixi Co-op workers in Chengdu against the cooperative equivalent to a management buyout. Reflections on the use of homicide - or the threat of homicide - as a weapon of the weak over the past few years in China.
1892: The Homestead Strike Extracts from Louis Adamic, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman describing the Homestead Strike in 1892, and the circumstances of Berkman’s shooting of Henry Clay Frick, the head of the Carnegie Steel Company’s strike-breaking operation.
French 'explosion-threat' workers win redundancy pay A group of French workers facing layoffs obtained extra money after threatening to blow up industrial equipment at their plant, labor union…
Belgian general strike diary, 1960 - Maurice Brinton Maurice Brinton's vivid and captivating first hand account of the massive general strike in Belgium in 1960-61 against a new law "loi unique" to…
Galvanising the steel strike, 1980 - Solidarity An article from Solidarity on the British Steel Corporation strike of 1980, which was one of the early blows of the Thatcher government against…
230 Sheffield steel workers to lose jobs Finnish metals group Outokumpu Oyj said Friday it will close a stainless steel plant in Sheffield, England - laying off all 230 workers - because of oversupply. Its stock surged 14 percent.
Nationwide general strike in India The nationwide general strike in India has affected West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura almost completely and other States partially with industrial…
Roundup of a month of strikes in Iran A round-up of recent strike activity in Iran, including the car industry and agriculture.