1945: Black Rhodesian Rail Workers Strike Black workers on the Rhodesian Rail way (Zimbabwe and Zambia) struck against unfair working conditions and company racism.
1913: Barcelona Textile Strike A strike by women in the cities textile industry against discrimination and working conditions.
1905: Swedish workers threaten general strike against war with Norway In 1905 the Union between Sweden and Norway unravelled. In response the Swedish right pushed war…
1919: Prison Strikes at Fort Leavenworth In 1919 the prison population for military prisons had swelled. In response to the pressure and arbitrary sentencing inmates at the Fort…
French West African Rail Workers Strike: 1947-48 In 1947 rail workers in French West Africa (Senegal, Benin, Ivory Coast and Guinea) struck throughout the region in protest over a discriminatory…
Behind the camouflage; a new strike wave in the Bangladeshi garment sector Following a period of relative quiet after the 2013 Rana Plaza factory disaster, new struggles…
Free Markets and Death Squads - Ricky Baldwin A general account of union busting and state terrorism of Haitian workers organisations, including incidents carried out by reformist President…
US Proxies Terrorising Workers in Haiti... Again: Ricky Baldwin An article about the use of paramilitaries and the Dominican army to terrorise Haitian workers and the lengths employers will go to break strikes.
The Leith dockers strike 1913 The Leith dockers strike of 1913 was a strike of the dockers of Leith, Scotland from 26 June to 14 August 1913. The dockers were part of the…
Rebel voices: an IWW anthology An extensive collection of writings by and about the Industrial Workers of the World union in the US, compiled and edited by Joyce L Kornbluh and…
Dixie be damned: 300 years of insurrection in the American South - Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford Book detailing three centuries of slave and working class rebellion in the southern…
To escape Trump's America, we need to bring the militant labor tactics of 1946 back to the future The last general strike in the US was in Oakland in 1946. That year there were 6…