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…
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,…
