Strikes hit German car industry 8,000 workers launched a series of co-ordinated strikes at automobile and electronics companies as it and employers spar over wage increases.
Ghazl el-Mahalla workers protest privatisation Workers from the Ghazl El-Mahalla spinning factory held a demonstration Thursday against alleged plans to sell off the Ghazl El-Mahalla company…
'Be a visitor, not a spy' - QQ Section, Site B, Khayelitsha Matt Birkinshaw, a London anarchist, gives an account of his visit to the QQ shack settlement in Cape Town in diary form. QQ has recently joined the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement that began in Durban but now has a national presence.
The middle-class blues This new track by XL Middleton, I think could resonate with many working people...
1970-71: Uprising in Poland A short history of the 1970-71 uprising by workers in Poland which saw strikes and occupations at workplaces across the country. Although…
Scottish Water workers vote on industrial action Scottish Water workers are being balloted on industrial action after the employer imposed a below inflation pay rise which had not been agreed.
Scottish council workers vote on new pay offer 150,000 local government workers in Scotland are being balloted to see if they accept an improved pay offer of 3% following two one-day strikes.
Sweeping down on the supermarkets As supermarkets continue to hike their prices, it seems a response is being planned – and not before time. But will it work?
Reporter kidnapped and tortured in Oaxaca In the increasingly tense climate of repression against the social movement which has been escalating these past couple of weeks, a journalist…
The Permanent Crisis in Education: On Some Recent Struggles in Greece - TPTG A detailed look at the strikes and occupations by teachers, students and parents in 2006-7 in response to neo-liberal policies being imposed on the Greek educational system.
Warm autumn? Heat rises in Italian education In response to new educational reforms from the Berlusconi government, staff and students at Italy's schools and universities have risen in…
Aufheben #16 (2008) Aufheben Issue #16. Class conflicts in the transformation of China, The language of retreat: Paolo Virno’s A grammar of the multitude, Value…