Lyft: strikes and blockades A lot of discussion around Lyft Shuttle derides it for doing little more than reinvent the city bus. What this forgets, however, is that transit…
Initial notes on the first-ever strike at Volkswagen Bratislava, Slovakia On June 20th, 2017, a strike began at the Volkswagen factory near Bratislava, Slovakia. This is the…
The women's day massacre, 1937 A short account of the 19 June killing of 16 people and wounding of 283 by police during a demonstration of women and children in support of a…
List of green bans, 1971-1974 A list and map of green bans in New South Wales from 1971, compiled in June 1974. Green bans were refusals of construction workers to work on…
East Germany, June 1953 A short account of the East German working class mass strike and uprising in 1953, which was crushed by Russian tanks, written by Andy Blunden in…
A history of trade unionism in the Philippines A detailed account of the history of the workers' movement in the Philippines, by the International Communist Current. We disagree with the…
The UK coalminers’ dispute, 1973-4 A short account of the national coal miners’ dispute in the winter of 1973-4 which led to the three-day week, the collapse of the Conservative…
Production control in Japan Post-war Japan saw a major strike wave. Due to shortages of nearly all necessities, some of the strikes took the form of 'production control'…
Anger from the underground: Bulgarian miners in wildcat strike The miners from Obrochishte - the third largest manganese mine in the world, located in eastern…
IWW strike timeline, 1905-1920 A timeline of strikes led supported by the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union in the United States 1905-1920.
The 1946 general strike of Rochester, New York A short history of the general strike in May 1946 in Rochester against the sacking of hundreds of municipal workers, written by Jon Garlock.
Menzies and Pig Iron for Japan An account of the refusal of Australian dockworkers to load ships with war materials for Japan, after news of the atrocities in China and fears…
