The Belfast police mutiny of 1907 - John Gray A history of the mutiny of 70% of the Belfast police force during a dockers' strike which brought together Catholic and Protestant workers in…
The Cork harbour strike of 1921 News articles about the work stoppage in Cork where dock workers took control and threatened to expropriate money to pay their own wages.
Tim Burgess: 'celebrity' Charlatan scab As journalists at the BBC strike to defend their jobs while senior execs get huge payoffs, former front man of middle-of-the-road Britpop act The…
Factory in Greece starts production under workers' control Striking workers at the Vio.Me factory in Thessaloniki, Greece who have not been paid since May 2011…
Athens metro workers forced back to work The Greek government has forced an end to a nine day public transport strike which brought parts of Athens to a standstill.
Angry workers hold bosses hostage More than 1,000 migrant workers in Shanghai have gone on strike and held 18 managers hostage following a dispute over the introduction of a…
Thousands of Coca Cola workers walk off the job Thousands of Coca Cola workers across Germany are staging a series of short term ‘warning’ strikes this week in protest over their wages. Workers…
A short history of the police strikes of 1918-1919 - Ken Weller Ken Weller of Solidarity's brief history of the two strikes of London police officers during and…
Tell us lies about the miners - Dave Douglass An angry study of the UK media campaign of distortion and lies against miners during the great strike of 1984-5, written by one of the…
The French strikes of May-June 1968 - Bruno Astarian A demystifying review essay and analysis summarizing the events of May-June 1968 in France with an almost exclusive focus on the strikes of the…
South African vineyard workers erupt For the second time in the last few months vineyard workers in the Western Cape Province, South Africa have clashed with bosses, scabs, private…
Soccer civil rights A vignette about the 1949 Uruguayan footballers' strike by Eduardo Galeano, self-professed beggar of good soccer and author of Soccer in Sun and…