21st October: a day of general strike On 21 October, over 1.3 million workers took part in a general strike called by a number of base trade unions (USB, S.I. Cobas, Unicobas, Adl…
The Iceland women’s strike, 1975 A short history of the strike, or day off, by 90% of women in Iceland for equality with men on 24 October, 1975, written by Steven Johns.
An account of the BFI strike, 1974 A short personal account of a strike at the British Film Institute in 1974 by Jonathan Rosenbaum.
An account of the British Film Institute strikes, 2002 A short personal account of the strikes at the British Film Institute (BFI) in London in 2002.
Modern day slavery in the USA Since the 45th Anniversary of the Attica prison riots – September 9th, 2016 – an estimated 24,000 people have been on strike in the USA. If you…
A general strike starting from refinery workers at the caribbean island of Curacao - awaiting new masters from China The strike of a week of refinery workers, followed by the general strike on…
Bloodshed in Bayonne October 8, 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the strike at Standard Oil’s Bayonne, N.J., refineries. In the course of the ten-day strike, 4 people…
Logistics worker killed while on strike in Piacenza, Italy During the night between September 14 and 15, Abdelssalam Eldanf was killed while he was on strike…
The Dublin lockout, 1913 - John Dorney A short history of Ireland’s most significant industrial dispute: the mass lockout of 20,000 workers by 400 employers in Dublin from August 1913…
The Wave Hill walk-off, 1966-1975 A short history of the Wave Hill, or Gurindji, strike, when aboriginal agricultural workers walked out for equal pay and then lodged a claim for…
The general strike of 1842 As many as half a million workers may have been caught up in a strike wave which linked demands for the Charter and an end to pay cuts. This page…
