workplace activity

Workers' accounts and experiences of organising in their workplaces.

May Hai factory staff is in working hours. © ILO

May Hai factory staff is in working hours. © ILO

The miners' struggle: the need for autonomous organization against the unions - ICG

The miners' struggle: the need for autonomous organization against the unions - Communism #2

Preface to »From Cellatex to Moulinex»

In 1999, Lear Corporation closed its plant for seating manufacturing for Volvo PV in Bengtsfors, Dalsland. Volvo had owned the plant themselves up to 1992 when it was sold to Lear Seating.

Public meeting at the fountain in Latham Square

1946: The Oakland general strike - Stan Weir

An account by Stan Weir of the gen strike in Oakland, California, in 1946.

Counter-Planning on the Shop floor - Bill Watson

Demonstration outside Castra Safeway, San Francisco.

Notes on another defeat for workers in the US: The Los Angeles supermarket strike of 2003-2004

The story of a defeated supermarket strike in LA, 2003-4.

Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's

An account of the French "Solidarity Collective" group. Casualised workers in Paris win several strikes, honorably lose another with combined…

Self-Activity of Wage Workers

Kamunist Kranti on working class self-organisation.

The workers have to deal with their own reality and that transforms them

Based on his experience in auto factories, Glaberman discusses the contradictions of the union's…

Black cats, white cats, wildcats: Auto workers in Detroit, 1969

Introductory article and account of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and its activity in…

Warnung - Marx (Der Bote vom Niederrhein - Nr 57 - 13 Mai 1866).jpg

A Warning - Karl Marx

Article by Marx, writing on behalf of the International, warning German workers to not be strikebreakers during a strike of Edinburgh tailors.

State of the Unions: Recent US Labour Struggles in Perspective

Philippsburg nuclear-power plant

Class struggle in a German town - Wildcat

Great text from 1986 looking at the class struggle in Philippsburg, Germany, from a group of temp workers who worked on the construction of the…