The general strike in Salford in 1911 - Edmund and Ruth Frow Great pamphlet about the largely successful general strike for better wages, shorter hours and union…
Wildcat strike at SOAS The School of Oriental and African Studies in London has been shut down today after management suspended a union activist. This is a deveoping…
In the year 1968: on the nationwide strike and university occupation in Helsinki Imagine the following situation. Due to a strike, public transportation is paralyzed all over the…
Jolting memory: Nightcleaners recalled - Sheila Rowbotham Sheila Rowbotham recalls both the campaigns to organise female night cleaners in London from 1970,…
Why are junior doctors in the UK so pissed off? After marching around the country last weekend, junior doctors in the UK are to be balloted on strike action against changes to their contracts…
Labour Movements and Opposition Groups in Saudi Arabia: 1950-1975 An article about the growth of the Saudi Labour movement and additional radical opposition groups, focussing on two strikes at the ARAMCO oil company in 1953 and 1956.
Timeline of UK schoolchildren's strikes A chronology of school pupil walkouts which I have been able to discover in the UK from the 19th century to today.
The UK school students' strike, 1985 - Steven Johns A short history of a successful national walkout of up to a quarter of a million school students against the Conservative government's workfare…
Blood on the coal: Colorado strike of 1927 - Patrick Murfin A short history of the great Colorado coal strike of 1927, called by the revolutionary union…
The Stepney schoolchildren's strike, 1971 A short account of a strike of 800 pupils in Stepney, east London on May 27, 1971, which successfully won reinstatement of a teacher who was…
The Burston Strike School, 1914-1939 A short history of the longest schoolchildren's strike in UK history, when nearly all pupils at Burston school in Norfolk, England walked out in…
“Cut up Khrushchev for sausages!” A history lesson for The New York Times - Simon Pirani This recent article by Simon Pirani both provides more information about the…