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…
The general strike of 1842 A detailed, full-length history of the UK Chartist general strike of 1842 against pay cuts and for universal male suffrage, by Mick Jenkins with…
Ovambo migrant workers general strike for rights, Namibia: 1971-72 In the winter of 1971-72 the economy of South West Africa (Namibia) was shutdown by a general strike…
The Luddites: machine-breaking in regency England A historical overview and analysis of the Luddite movement 1811-1816 which swept parts of the UK as workers smashed machines to defend their jobs…
Foodora strikes in Italy: the dark side of the sharing economy Couriers for the Foodora food delivery app have been taking strike action, raising more questions…
