wildcat strikes

Content on libcom.org related to wildcat, or unofficial, strike action. Including news, history, analysis, discussion and tactics.

New York postal workers on wildcat strike, 1970

New York postal workers on wildcat strike, 1970

Paris

Support the occupational strike of Ukrainian and Russian workers in France

Originally published in French. Translated from the version in Russian.

Milan

Ukraine: From a Wave of Desertion to Spontaneous Self-Demobilization Amid US Elections

National Unity and Armed Forces Day is celebrated in Italy on November 4 in honor of the…

Ukraine

Internationalism – a guide to action or an excuse for inaction? To the start of the Prague Action Week 20-26 May

Nine points for further discussion from the anarchist newsletter of Kharkov. In…

Ukraine

War against war is starting? The grapes of wrath in Ukraine

This yellow Niva has become in Ukraine a truly popular meme of resistance to state terror

ASR Issue 88 Cover

Heat Waves/Strike Waves - Jeff Shantz

Green syndicalism puts the connectedness of ecological crises and crises of working-class life at the center of analysis—as outcomes of…

Ukraine

The autumn rise of social struggle across Ukraine

People crushed by poverty and war are slowly waking up and starting to organize themselves for their everyday interests...

Russia/Ukraine

Strike at a military airfield and other refusals to fight in Russia and Ukraine. Mid-autumn 2023

Updates on refusals to fight or join armies in Ukraine and Russia amidst the…

Ukraine

July wave of social conflicts in Ukraine

After a wearisome period of dormancy, people are gradually beginning to remember what it is to stand for their rights!

Intransigent inmates at Attica meet for the last time with negotiators

News of Disalienation - Jonathan Horelick

A situationist text on a wave of wildcat strikes in America in the early 1970s, the Attica prison uprising, the US left and the global situation.

Collage of photo of black car factory workers and the front of a Chrysler car which has been snipped in two

End of the Line: Wildcat Detroit, 1973 - Point Blank!

Pamphlet by San Francisco situationist group in praise of wildcat strikes at a power plant and car…

Education workers' picket line.

Conservatives back down on anti-worker law in face of general strike threat. Rank and file resolute.

Ontario’s Conservative government officially repealed its anti-worker, anti-union…

CUPE rally with flags and placards.

Education workers announce wildcat action after Ontario suspends human rights to crush their union

The Conservative government in Canada’s largest province, Ontario, took the…