Workers Launch Wave of Wildcat Strikes As Trump Pushes for ‘Return to Work’ Amidst Exploding Coronavirus
A report on the spread of wildcat strikes in response to the coronavirus in the US. This article was first published by It's Going Down.
Class Struggle in the Time of Coronavirus: An Incomplete Chronicle of Events (16-21 March)
The following review is a small depiction of what’s happening in the world, outside Italy (for the situation in Italy, see: leftcom.org).
Teesside Construction Workers Challenge the State
On Thursday 30 May construction workers at the Tees Renewable Energy Plant, owned by MGT Power, walked out in a wildcat action over safety conditions at the site. When workers act on their own class terrain they begin to challenge the capitalist structure as a whole.
1980-1: Class Struggle in Poland
As a follow up to our recent article about Solidarność (see: leftcom.org) we are republishing three of the leaflets that the CWO and Battaglia Comunista distributed in 1980-1 among workers in Britain, Italy, France, and the USA on the events unfolding in Poland.
IWW Deliveroo riders strike and blockade in London
Deliveroo riders organising with the London IWW have been taking spontaneous action for improved wages and working conditions, shutting down one of Deliveroo's 'dark kitchens' in Swiss Cottage, North-West London.
Solidarność: Trade Unionism or Self-Organisation?
Political and economic crises led to the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc. The downturn in the post-war accumulation cycle, the Cold War, the USSR’s disastrous intervention in Afghanistan, as well as the popular revolts in Central and Eastern Europe all played a role. But it is the class struggles of 1980s Poland to which we turn our eye here.
The Courtaulds Red Scar Mill strike, 1965
A short history of the unofficial strike at Courtauld's Red Scar Mill in Preston, 1965, the first of what would become a long list of significant 'migrant strikes' (such as Mansfield Hosiery in 1972, Standard Telephones and Cables in 1973, Imperial Typewriters in 1974 and, of course, Grunwick in 1976).
Wildcat homers, gamifying work and workplace-whanau in the meat industry
Toby Boraman's academic article on the informal resistance by Aotearoa meatworkers in 1970s.
Wildcat at Orion
An in-depth report from the recent wildcat strike at the Orion recycling plant in East London. This report first appeared on Notes from Below.
Mass wildcat strike by Kentucky teachers
Teachers in Kentucky are on wildcat strike today with at least eight school districts closing schools due to lack of teaching staff.
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