Trade Unions
Tesla strike in Sweden: organise for victory and control of the unions!
Jens-Hugo Nyberg Wed, 15/11/2023 - 09:06For decades, the unions of the LO (Landsorganisationen i Sverige) have been reluctant to call for strikes and other industrial action. Read more...
Argentina: Rightward shift in the primaries
Martin Suchanek Sat, 26/08/2023 - 16:51The victory of the right-wing, ultra-liberal Javier Milei in the primary elections on 13 August is tantamount to a political earthquake. Read more...
France: Is Macron driving through his pension reform?
Martin Suchanek Wed, 19/04/2023 - 09:24Regardless of reverses and record unpopularity, President Macron is pushing through the raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64 years - against the resistance of wage earners, trade unions and you Read more...
Spain: Mass protests against deterioration of the health system
Ernst Ellert, GAM Infomail no. 1217, 22 March 2023 Thu, 30/03/2023 - 16:12A wave of protests by doctors, nurses and their supporters is developing in Spain against the deliberate run down of the public healthcare system. Read more...
French battle over pensions becomes struggle for democracy
Marc Lassalle Fri, 24/03/2023 - 10:22General strike is the solution!
Down with Macron and the antidemocratic Fifth Republic! Read more...
Unite women’s struggles with those of the working class and the oppressed!
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Tue, 07/03/2023 - 11:18Women have been in the forefront of working class and democratic struggles over the last year. Read more...
France: millions march against pensions robbery
Marc Lassalle, Paris Fri, 17/02/2023 - 14:49The numbers speak for themselves. More than two million workers marched on 19 January against President Emmanuel Macron’s latest attempt to reform the pension system. Read more...
Biden bans railroad strike
Dave Stockton, Workers Power 399, London, December 2022 Sat, 24/12/2022 - 10:56As railworkers in Britain face Tory threats to make their strikes ineffective by ‘minimum service’ laws, 115,000 US freight railworkers have just had their strike vote for decent working conditions ‘s Read more...
Britain’s Winter of Discontent
Dave Stockton Tue, 20/12/2022 - 10:25Britain is facing a “winter of discontent” in the shape of the biggest wave of strikes for many years. Read more...
French workers on the offensive
Marc Lassalle Fri, 21/10/2022 - 09:05For almost a year, the French workers have mobilised in a series of strikes across the country which gained momentum after the summer. Read more...
Britain’s strike heatwave
Dave Stockton Sun, 21/08/2022 - 09:34Britain is having a record hot summer - not just in terms of the 30-40 degree temperatures that have turned normally green lawns and pastures into brown scrublands – but in terms of a “hot summer” of Read more...
Italy: Draghi falls, the far right rises
Dave Stockton Thu, 28/07/2022 - 10:50On July 21, Italy’s prime minister, Mario Draghi, resigned for the second time in one week, after key parts of his national unity coalition; the populist Five Star Movement, M5S, Matteo Salvini’s far- Read more...
UK: Rail workers — escalate to win!
KD Tait Fri, 24/06/2022 - 16:19Britain's railway network was twice brought to a standstill on June 21 and 23 as 40,000 rail workers walked out in the first national strike for 30 years. Read more...
UK: After the TUC demo: coordinate strikes to beat inflation
KD Tait Wed, 22/06/2022 - 13:24On Saturday 18 June, tens of thousands of people marched through central London to demand action to fight the growing cost of living crisis. Read more...
Sri Lanka: For a Constituent Assembly!
Peter Main Sat, 14/05/2022 - 18:20"Rajapaksa is sending his thugs to kill us", that was the one line message sent to the League by a supporter at the protest camp on Galle Face Green in Colombo on May 9. Read more...
Amazon Staten Island – a victory for rank-and-file organizing
Dave Stockton Sun, 08/05/2022 - 12:39April 1, 2022, witnessed one of the most striking victories for US Labor in quite a time. Read more...
Germany: DGB on May Day - Protests against national closing of ranks
Susanne Kühn Wed, 04/05/2022 - 19:20203,500 people took part in the trade unions' demonstrations and rallies on 1 May 2022, according to the DGB. Read more...
France's presidential election: No to racism, No to imperialism, Prepare the fight!
Marc Lassalle Sat, 26/03/2022 - 16:03The winner of the presidential election in France is effectively a foregone conclusion. Read more...
Inflation: make the bosses pay!
Jeremy Dewar, Workers Power 390, February 2022 Fri, 04/02/2022 - 17:28Inflation is back in the headlines. Even Tory MPs are raising the ‘cost of living crisis’ in the House of Commons. Read more...
USA: Despite the Pandemic – The Working Class Awakens
Marcus Otono, Nashville, Tennessee Wed, 19/01/2022 - 10:32Something is happening with the US working class despite the resurgence of the pandemic with the Omicron wave. They are awakening to militancy. Read more...
South Africa: 155,000 NUMSA steelworkers on indefinite strike
Jeremy Dewar Fri, 15/10/2021 - 16:46A mass strike has halted steel production in South Africa since 5 October. Read more...
Germany: After the strike is before the strike!
Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1158, 13 August 2021 Sat, 14/08/2021 - 15:54A 48-hour strike on Germany's railways has highlighted several key issues, and not just for railway workers. Read more...
UK: Kill the Bill!
KD Tait , Red Flag Wed, 28/04/2021 - 10:17As the second covid lockdown draws to a close, social tensions are rising. Read more...
USA: Support Bessemer workers - and imitate them
Dave Stockton Mon, 08/03/2021 - 09:16A labour organising drive in the town of Bessemer, Alabama, (population 26,680) has caught the attention of trade unionists and socialists worldwide. The reason? Read more...
Solidarity with the General Strike in India
Martin Suchanek Fri, 27/11/2020 - 08:56Since the morning of November 26, a massive general strike is sweeping across India. Trade Unions expect up to 250 million participants. Read more...
Political crisis in Sweden: Strike action is the way forward
Arbetarmakt, Sweden Thu, 26/11/2020 - 17:33Ever since a general election in September 2018 produced a hung parliament, Sweden has limped from one near-crisis to the next. Read more...
Bolivia: The fight for democracy is the struggle for revolution!
Dave Stockton Wed, 12/08/2020 - 13:52A wave of strikes and blockades, called by the trade union federation, COB, and an alliance of peasant and indigenous organisations has paralysed Bolivia after the Supreme Electoral Court, TSE, announ Read more...
Pakistan: From workers’ protests to workers’ revolt
Shehzad Arshad Fri, 22/05/2020 - 07:51Protests were held across Pakistan on Tuesday, May 19 under the auspices of the Workers' Solidarity Committee, WSC. The protesters included political activists, students and women. Read more...
Britain: Relaxing the Lockdown? We’ll need workers' control
Dave Stockton redflagonline.org May 7, 2020 Wed, 13/05/2020 - 15:22Boris Johnson is due to announce the relaxation of the Covid-19 “lockdown” on Sunday. The Times reports ministers are worried there is a danger workers will become “addicted to it”. Read more...
