Industrial action by NHS doctors, 1975 - Steven Johns A short history of the three sets of industrial action which were undertaken by consultants and…
Why are junior doctors in the UK so pissed off? After marching around the country last weekend, junior doctors in the UK are to be balloted on strike action against changes to their contracts…
Timeline of UK schoolchildren's strikes A chronology of school pupil walkouts which I have been able to discover in the UK from the 19th century to today.
The UK school students' strike, 1985 - Steven Johns A short history of a successful national walkout of up to a quarter of a million school students against the Conservative government's workfare…
The schoolchildren's strikes, 1889 - Steven Johns A brief history of walkouts of schoolchildren across the UK in October 1889 against corporal punishment and excessive workloads.
Unison activists vote to reopen 2015 pay dispute In an almost unprecedented move, rank-and-file Unison representatives in councils and schools voted in a special conference earlier today to tear…
New York City municipal workers' strike, 1971 - Steven Johns A short history of a two-day strike by thousands of New York city workers in pursuit of a pension…
The Christmas truce, 1914 - Steven Johns A short history of the widespread but unofficial truce between British and German troops on the Western front over Christmas, 1914 during World…
10 reasons to support the firefighters' strikes Firefighters in England today walked out on strike for 24 hours in the latest of a series of stoppages in a dispute over massive attacks by the…
"Leave it to the professionals": on paid union organisers A response to a blog criticising the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union for not making…
The occupation of the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, 1979 - Steven Johns A short account of a sit in at the Swedish health board by LGBT activists in 1979 which successfully…
The SS Columbia Eagle mutiny, 1970 - Steven Johns A short history of the most spectacular American naval mutiny during the Vietnam war, where two sailors hijacked a ship full of napalm and sailed…
