strikes

The history of the world holiday on the 1st May - May Day, or International Workers Day, held in commemoration of four anarchists executed for…

The history of a small strike at coffee shop in Spain, with the involvement of two different groups of anarchists, and ended largely in failure, albeit with some very minor concessions won.

The history of a huge five-month strike and lockout of 70,000 supermarket workers in California, which ended in defeat.

An account of a strike of mostly Sri Lankan workers, aided by outside militants, at a British-owned pub chain in France, which won some concessions for the workers.

A short history of a victorious strike and occupation of their workplace by contracted-out bin workers that was assisted by local residents.

An account of a group of 153 sacked Cellatex chemical workers in France who won a massively improved redundancy deal due to militant struggle,…

Immigrants demonstrated their willingness, when asked, to support British workers in struggle in this victorious strike of 300 building workers…

An account of the 1990 strike in East London of mostly immigrant workers, which won several concessions for the workers and prevented the owner…

An account of the 1989 strike of the highly democratic and self-managed Australian Federation of Air Pilots union, which was the biggest industrial struggle of the period.

The history of P&O shipping workers who struck against wage and job cuts for 16 months. The company tried to break the strike, the government…

The history of a large strike of shipyard workers in Spain against closure. An important feature of this strike was not just the high level of…

The history of the second state-wide strike of nurses in Victoria, Australia against cuts and over wages, conditions and staff/patient ratios,…