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

Machinists on strike at Bethlehem shipyard, San Francisco, October 29, 1945

Class-conscious machinists: "Stormy petrels of west coast labor"

Sister machinist unions, San Francisco's Lodge 68 of the International Association of Machinists and…

Echoes of the past: Marikana, cheap labour and the 1946 miners strike

Chris Webb puts the Lonmin massacre in some historical perspective.

Umshini Wam

Chris McMichael on the Lonmin Massacre. 'Umshini Wam' is Jacob Zuma's trade mark song. It means 'bring me my machine gun'.

Senzeni Na?

A beautifully written piece on the Lonmin massacre by Chris Rodrigues. 'Senzeni na?' is the name of a very mournful struggle song in South Africa that means 'What have we done?'

The Marikana mine workers massacre – a massive escalation in the war on the poor

Ayanda Kota from South African shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo reports on the…

Families of those killed demonstrate against police

Solidarity with mine workers at Marikana Platinum

This statement from South African shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo on the massacre at Marikana Platinum has just come out on their…

Direct action gets the goods in Brazil

Faced with with over 1,000 redundancies, Brazilian GM workers walk off the job, and occupy the busiest highway route in the country. The bosses…

The ILWU longshore struggle in Longview and beyond: a class struggle critique

This article from August 10th, 2012 is an important rebuttal to accounts of the Longview struggle…

The Canadian postal workers wildcat strike 1965

During 1955-1965 the volume of mail posted in Canada more than doubled. The number of postal workers did not - instead, the bosses forced workers…

Court injunction issued in an attempt to break Canadian wildcat strike

Supreme court in Newfoundland issues injunction against construction workers in order to break an…

Balfour Beatty construction workers win swift victory in unofficial action

Balfour Beatty construction workers - the majority non-union - take successful unofficial strike…

Class Struggle in Vietnam: From the Colonial Yoke to Wage Slavery for Global Capital

Following a recent wave of strikes in Vietnam, Insurgent Notes discuss capitalist development and…