The Indian Rico strike and the aftermath: when capital wants to "de-risk" The report of a Rico auto worker of a strike in 2009, alongside another similar struggle and general…
Shipping traffic halted by wildcat strike in Finland More than half of Finland's freight traffic was brought to a standstill on Tuesday 2 February by a wildcat strike by 1000 stevedores in seven…
The Line You Have Reached... Disconnect It! Lucius Cabins writes on the 22 day nationwide strike of 700,000 telecoms workers at AT&T in 1983.
Posties, tippex and ballots: the 1996 postal strikes As Subversion #20 was produced, postal workers in Britain were in the middle of a long running dispute with the state. This article helped…
Video: Machinists against the machine - Bangladeshi garment workers' struggles A 15 minute video; a workforce, 85% female, paid some of the lowest wages in the world; expressing…
Blue Shield and the union: A post-mortem - Debra Wittley Debra Wittley analyses the strike action at Blue Shield insurance from 1980-81 for Processed World.
Post-mortem on the Blue Shield strike Processed World analyses the situation at the end of the Blue Shield insurance workers' strike in 1981.
1889: The Glasgow dockers' go-slow A brief history of the strike of Glasgow dockers in 1889 which was proving fruitless, until they returned to work and began a go-slow or "working…
Turkey: Tekel workers take on the government and the unions A detailed account an analysis of the struggle of thousands of Tekel workers in Turkey against mass…
Office workers on strike: San Francisco 1981 A short account of an ongoing strike of Blue Shield clerical workers in San Francisco in 1981, by Lucius Cabins.
Porto Marghera – the last firebrands Excellent booklet on the widespread class struggle in the chemical factories of the Italian industrial zone of Porto Marghera in the 1960s and…
1980: Defeat at Fiat - Marco Revelli An analysis of the historic five week strike of Fiat workers in Turin against mass layoffs, which was defeated and ushered in a new age of…
