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

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…

A Warning - Journeymen Tailors in Europe

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…

Background to a simulated strike

The Brighton Bin Men's Strike 2001