Workers Launch Wave of Wildcat Strikes As Trump Pushes for ‘Return to Work’ Amidst Exploding Coronavirus
Submitted by R Totale on Mar 26 2020 21:56
A report on the spread of wildcat strikes in response to the coronavirus in the US. This article was first published by It's Going Down.
Class Struggle in the Time of Coronavirus: An Incomplete Chronicle of Events (16-21 March)
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 23 2020 19:37
The following review is a small depiction of what’s happening in the world, outside Italy (for the situation in Italy, see: leftcom.org).
The Four Horsemen of Capitalist Decay
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 22 2020 16:24
Capitalism – the current social system based on private property, wage labour and production for profit – is at a turning point. Day by day it becomes clearer that the existing relations of production have become fetters preventing humanity from addressing the urgent problems facing the whole planet. Unable to resolve its own contradictions, capitalism is instead hurtling us towards barbarism.
Italy: "We're not Lambs to the Slaughter!" Class Struggle in the Time of Coronavirus
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 15 2020 13:08
The line that divides this entire society into two social classes is today, in the time of coronavirus, clearer than ever.
Demonstration and Strike of Peroni Workers at Tor Sapienza (Rome)
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 14 2020 17:27
On February 29th we (comrades from the CWO and Battaglia Comunista) were at the solidarity demonstration with the warehouse workers of the Italian-Japanese company Peroni in Tor Sapienza, Rome. The workers there are carrying on a bitter struggle for better working conditions which started with a week-long strike.
Strikes Against Pension Reform in France
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 5 2020 09:29
Governments and bosses have divided the class, between “national” and “foreign” workers, young and old, public and private, all in the name of the so-called national interest. But workers in France have given an inspiration to workers everywhere.
The Woolf Rubber Company Strike, 1965
One of the first major strikes by Asian workers in the UK, in 1965 mostly Punjabi workers went on strike at the R. Woolf Rubber Factory in Southall, West London.
1972: Dockworkers Strike
Submitted by Reddebrek on Feb 26 2020 12:15
Documentary film made by Cinema Action on the picket lines during the dockworkers strike of 1972 to safe guard jobs and oppose economic restructuring, lay-offs and increased monopolisation of the industry and growing government involvement in industrial disputes.
Room maids strike back at a Paris hotel
Submitted by NancyPasReagan on Feb 24 2020 19:46
Nancy Pas Reagan on the struggle of Parisien cleaners who have been on strike since July 2019.
Hong Kong, a struggle for A struggle for bourgeois freedoms trapped within the limits of capitalism and political submission to US/UK imperialism - Mouvement Communiste/Kolektivně proti Kapitălu
Text analysing the recent, and continuing, democracy protests in Hong Kong.
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