Brazil: popular revolt and its limits
June 2018 marks five years since the wave of protests against the price of collective transportation, which shook the streets of hundreds of brazilian cities in 2013. At the heart of those riots was the Movimento Passe Livre (something like Free Pass Movement), an autonomous and horizontal social movement founded in 2005, which defended the gratuity of transport. Written in 2014 by two militants who later left the organization, this article reflects on the limits of that cycle of protests.
RWU Convention solidarity workshop report-back
Submitted by Supply Chain Re... on Jun 30 2018 05:32
On April 5-6, 2018 Railroad Workers United held their biennial convention, just prior and in coordination with the Labor Notes Conference, in Chicago. Supply Chain Study/Research Group facilitated a workshop entitled "Struggles Along Supply Chains: Rail & Cross-Sectoral Solidarity" that modeled possible solidarity actions during a hypothetical strike at an Amazon warehouse. Warehouse worker organizers from SI Cobas in Italy, Angry Workers of the World in the U.K., and Workers Initiative from Poland participated, along with Chicago warehouse workers, Seattle Amazon tech workers, longshore workers from the Pacific Northwest, and a room full of rank-and-file railroaders.
The rebellion of truck drivers at a crossroads - Iniciativa Revolução Universal
Submitted by Blesk on Jun 5 2018 16:48
We translate from Spanish this material originally published in Portuguese by comrades from Brazil organized around Universal Revolution Initiative. It’s a leaflet distributed during the struggles that are currently taking place, in the spring of 2018, in the region dominated by the Brazilian State.
Catalan independence: what’s hiding behind the nationalist myth? - Mouvement Communiste/Kolektivně proti Kapitălu
This leaflet was produced at the end of October and therefore before Madrid imposed direct rule on Catalonia... But it still makes the important points!
Uber drivers strike in Indonesia
Submitted by no1 on Aug 23 2017 09:48
Hundreds of Uber drivers have been on strike in Indonesia in a dispute over what they describe as “modern slavery” practices by the firm.
Sabotage in the American workplace: anecdotes of dissatisfaction, mischief and revenge
Submitted by Anonymous on Jul 21 2017 18:18
A truly fantastic study of everyday employee resistance at work. First person accounts of sabotage, beautifully illustrated and intermingled with related news clippings, facts and quotes.
1857: Brazilian Slaves Strike Against ID Tags
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 18 2017 18:13
In 1857 a mix of slaves and free black labourers struck to resist an ID tag system and tax on their trade.
Edinburgh IWW statement on Scotrail/RMT railworkers strikes
in 2016 the RMT trade union conducted a serious of strikes over the issue of Driver Only Operated trains. Edinburgh IWW offered a statement in support and their solidarity.
Legal action doesn't get the goods
Submitted by Jim on Oct 28 2016 17:00
The recent employment tribunal ruling against Uber is not the end of the 'gig-economy' and might not change anything
The Dublin lockout, 1913 - John Dorney
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 31 2016 21:25
A short history of Ireland’s most significant industrial dispute: the mass lockout of 20,000 workers by 400 employers in Dublin from August 1913 to January 1914.
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