On Thursday 10 March France was hit by another huge day of action. This combined strike action by large numbers of workers, both private and public sector, with huge demonstrations in all the major cities.

In Paris 150,000 participants, marched from Place d’Italie to Place de la Nation behind a giant banner reading “Higher wages, shorter working hours, against deregulation and unemployment.” Read more...

The 24-hour general strike against the government of Alejandro Toledo on 14 July was described as a "complete success" by the Peru trade union federation CGTP. Read more...

On 9 June, workers in Nigeria launched a three day general strike in protest against the governments 20 per cent hike in the price of oil to the equivalent of more than 20 pence a litre. The average income the equivalent of about 50p a day. Nigeria is the eighth biggest oil producer in the world and cheap fuel and kerosene for heating is the only benefit the mass of ordinary Nigerians receive from their natural wealth. Read more...

Two decades have passed since the British miners launched a strike to defend their pits from a huge closure programme. The strike turned into one of the most decisive economic and political struggles of the twentieth century. Mark Hoskisson looks back at this contest between the British state and the thousands of working class men and women, whom the Tory prime minister of the time, Margaret Thatcher, famously described as “the enemy within”. Read more...

For nearly four months some 70,000 workers employed by four major supermarket chains across southern and central California have been engaged in a battle that will shape the terrain of struggle between US unions and corporate bosses for the course of the next decade. Read more...

On Tuesday 13 May, two million French workers went on strike and took to the streets to protest against the government's plan to increase the length of time French public sector workers have to work before retirement from 37.5 to 40 years (this is the length of time that private sector workers have to work). Read more...

Twice over the last year Jacques Chirac has been able to convince the French working class to support him over decisive issues. Read more...

Zanon is a ceramics factory in Neuquen, in the south-west of Argentina, which has been occupied for over a year by its workers. The Zanon workers continue to produce despite several attempts to evict them, which they have successfully prevented. Read more...