The Iva Valley Shooting at Enugu Colliery, Nigeria: African Workers’ Aspirations and the Failure of Colonial Labor Reform The Iva Valley Shooting at Enugu Colliery, Nigeria: African Workers’ Aspirations…
The Iva Valley miners strike and massacre at Enugu colliery, 1949 On the 18th November 1949, 21 striking miners and a bystander were shot dead at a British government…
Strikes in Ghana, 1961 In September 1961, a wildcat strike broke out amongst the railway works of Takoradi-Sekondi, spreading quickly to Accra and Kumasi and lasting…
Strikes in Durban, 1973 Gerhard Maré's study of the 1973 strikes of nearly one hundred thousand workers in Durban, South Africa.
The postal strike of 1922 Cathal Brennan tells the story of the postal strike of September 1922, in which the postal unions struck against pay cuts in the infancy of the…
‘Rough and ready work’: The Special Infantry Corps Article by John Dorney telling the story of the Special Infantry Corps, a military unit set up during the civil war of 1922-3 to suppress…
The Rise and Fall and Insurrection of Trade Unionism in Tanzania An overview of the development of trade unions in Tanzania between the 1920s and 1990s by Tanzanian…
The Nairobi General Strike, 1950: From Protest to Insurgency The Nairobi General Strike [1950] was the culmination of Kenya’s post war strike wave and urban…
The East African Railway Strike, 1959-60: labour’s challenge of inter-territorialism David Hyde examines a pivotal working-class struggle which erupted within East Africa’s transport…
Belgian Deliveroo couriers on strike The collective of Deliveroo couriers is on strike every Saturday to protest against a precarization of their status. Since last week, actions are…
Florida Prisoners Are Laying It Down During early 2018 prisoners across Florida are gonna “laydown” in nonviolent protest of the intolerable conditions in Florida’s prisons.