The schoolchildren's strikes, 1889 - Steven Johns A brief history of walkouts of schoolchildren across the UK in October 1889 against corporal punishment and excessive workloads.
Alcoy bakery workers strike The Inter-Professional (cross-trade) Union of the CNT (Spanish section of the International Workers' Association IWA-AIT) in the city of Alcoy …
Finland: Schools to close, rail network to shut down in austerity protest Finnish teachers are set to join the biggest labour movement demonstration in decades on Friday,…
Autoworkers and the working class in Brazil - John Humphrey An analysis of the strike waves of the late-1970s Brazilian working-class movement, and the…
If a strike turns you into a Tory, you probably were one anyway In the Guardian, Jonathan Jones laments that workers standing up for themselves is getting in the…
New series of factory stories from China Chinese worker activists have been documenting and analyzing the situation and struggles of factory workers in the Pearlriverdelta in South China…
Taking on the #TradeUnionBill Expanding on my previous post on the subject, an in depth look at the provisions of the Tory government’s proposed Trade Union Bill and how it…
For a revolutionary labor movement - Love & Rage This flyer was distributed at the 100,000 strong "Action!Motown" national mass march in Detroit called by the AFL-CIO at the end of the Newspaper…
Responding to Evening Standard bollocks on the tube strike A commuter's rant about the (unsurprisingly) anti-worker coverage of the tube strike by the Evening…
The Mold riots: The summer of ‘69 The story of the 1869 riots in Mold, Wales. Following a trial in which miners were convicted of assaulting their manager, soldiers fired on angry…
Origins of the sit-down era: worker militancy and innovation in the rubber industry, 1934-1938 - Daniel Nelson An article by Daniel Nelson about the Akron, Ohio rubber workers of the 1930s.