Trade Unions
Austria: 100,000 demonstrate against 12 hour day
ArbeiterInnenstandpunkt Mon, 02/07/2018 - 10:33Last Saturday, June 30, saw the biggest mobilisation yet against Austria's right wing government since it took office in December. Read more...
Brazil: The truck drivers' uprising
Pericles da Lima, Markus Lehner Wed, 13/06/2018 - 16:54In the last days of May almost nothing moved in Brazil. Read more...
New York: From Union Struggles to Class Struggle at The New School
Mo Sedlak Tue, 22/05/2018 - 20:33In the last weeks of summer term 2018, the New School, a private non-profit research university centered in Manhattan, New York City, was shaken by a series of struggles by its workers who were finall Read more...
Labor Notes 2018: Successes pose new challenges for union activists
Jeremy Dewar, Lambeth Unison delegate (pc) and Marcus Otono, Workers Power USA. Red Flag 19, May 2018 Tue, 08/05/2018 - 09:37Three thousand trade unionists assembled in Chicago for Labor Notes’ biennial conference on 8-11 April. Many there claimed it was the biggest Labor Notes conference ever. Read more...
French workers’ and students’ struggle at a turning point
Marc Lassalle, Paris Fri, 04/05/2018 - 13:47After a month of militant but inconclusive strikes and occupations by railway workers and students, activists are organising to relaunch the mobilisation against the government attacks, with a nation Read more...
Macron declares war on railway workers
Marc Lasalle, Paris Sat, 24/03/2018 - 04:13On March 22, strikes and demonstrations took place across France. Read more...
West Virginia Teachers: Raising the Class Struggle Stakes
Marcus Otono Thu, 08/03/2018 - 11:46Truth be told, it caught most of us by surprise. Read more...
Germany: IG Metall pay settlement, workers' victory or bureaucratic showpiece?
Frederik Haber Thu, 01/03/2018 - 11:30The results of the metal-workers' pay campaign in Germany have attracted a lot of attention not only at home but internationally. Read more...