Teesside Construction Workers Challenge the State
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jun 7 2019 09:29
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
Submitted by Internationalis... on May 28 2019 15:32
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
Submitted by Ed on May 26 2019 19:13
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?
Submitted by Internationalis... on May 23 2019 12:25
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.
Mexico: Metalworkers, universities join strike wave as 90,000 Walmart workers threaten to walk out
Submitted by Soapy on Feb 28 2019 12:03
Dozens of maquiladora plants that agreed to the “20-32”—a 20 percent raise and a bonus of 32,000 pesos (US$1,700)—demanded by workers in Matamoros, Mexico, are escalating their reprisals against the historic wave of strikes that began in the city on January 12. This has included thousands of firings.
International Solidarity with the Wildcat Strikes of the Mexican Maquiladoras
Submitted by Internationalis... on Feb 27 2019 09:17
Since the 2008 economic crisis, the ballooning global debt has increased from $20 trillion to over $240 trillion. With this exponential growth of indebtedness and an unresolvable crisis of accumulation, capitalism is losing its grip. The effects of this crisis are felt no more clearly than within the maquiladora sweatshops on the northern border of Mexico. Here sub-assemblies are pieced together for the struggling US automobile industry north of the Rio Grande.
Mexican workers take matters into their own hands
Submitted by Soapy on Feb 14 2019 16:51
Largest North American strike wave in decades grows. Rebellion exposes union betrayal, is met with repression from “left-wing” government and a near total media blackout.
Mexico's Turmoil Continues: The Maquiladora Strikes
Submitted by Internationalis... on Feb 4 2019 14:27
The article below has been provided by a CWO sympathiser. It gives a brief sketch of a continuing struggle where we again see workers organising themselves against their bosses and against the bosses' props, the Labor Unions. At this point the outcome of the struggle is not yet determined but even now it is clear that the struggle is part of our class's resistance against the capitalists' crisis-driven onslaught.
The Courtaulds Red Scar Mill strike, 1965
Submitted by Ed on Jan 17 2019 22:55
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
Submitted by wojtek on Aug 10 2018 12:00
Toby Boraman's academic article on the informal resistance by Aotearoa meatworkers in 1970s.
