General strike, South Africa 1922 - Baruch Hirson Baruch Hirson on the 1922 South African general strike. HIrson deals at length with the racial politics of the strike, which despite militancy…
Solidarity with the GDN Logistics workers In the early afternoon of Tuesday, January 30, the police charged and drove a group of workers away from the gates of GDN Logistics of San…
The Memphis sanitation strike, 1968 A short history of the 1968 strike of 1300 African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, during which Martin Luther King Jr. was…
Kate Mullany and the Collar Laundry Union A history of the Collar Laundry Union – the first female union in the United States – set up by Kate Mullany, Esther Keegan and others in Troy,…
Global Deliveroo strikes Over the last couple of weeks, Deliveroo have been hit by a series of strikes and occupations all over the world: from Hong Kong to Belgium,…
The encyclopedia of strikes in American history This comprehensive encyclopedia, edited by Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Henry Day Jr., and Immanuel Ness, is the first detailed collection of…
The general strike and Irish independence Interesting article by John Dorney on the syndicalist tactic of the general strike and its relationship with the struggle for Irish independence…
The 1945 Nigerian General Strike In 1945 a general strike involving tens of thousands of workers began with railway workers, then spread to other nationalised industries…
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.
