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The dock workers strike and San Francisco general strike, 1934 - Jeremy Brecher
funeral.jpg Jeremy Brecher's history of the 1934 strike of dock workers and the San Francisco general strike it sparked, against casual hiring methods on the docks, which was bitterly opposed by...
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Forgotten revolution: Limerick soviet, 1919 - Liam Cahill
10467227_1.jpg Historian Liam Cahill's look at the 1919 Limerick soviet and the conditions in which it was created.
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Images from 1946 Oakland general strike
540073980_9d6ba5f367.jpg Images from the 1946 Oakland general strike. Mostly taken from the University of California-Berkeley's online archive....
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Images from 1946 Rochester general strike
10.jpg Pictures from the 1946 Rochester, New York general strike, which happened in response to the mass firings of city workers attempting to organize a union. Pictures originally posted at Rochester...
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Resolutions
GeneralStrikeArrows1.png If there’s one thing, politically, that I want to happen in 2014 it’s for leftists to drop the demand for a 24 hour general strike from above and start building for an all out...
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On the passage of a few thousand people through a brief period of time -...
greve geral.gif The deployment of austerity measures in Portugal gives the context to several resistance struggles and events that come under detailed description and analysis from a critical...
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From mass strike to new society - Jeremy Brecher
Biennio-Rosso.jpg Excellent text by Jeremy Brecher examining where mass strikes have progressed into the working class attempting to run society in its own interests and the lessons we can learn from...
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Turkish miners: Soma workers murdered for profits
Turkey.jpg Hundreds of thousands of workers have taken part in a one-day strike, and clashes with police have broken out, after hundreds of coal miners died in Turkey's worst mining disaster, which was...
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"If Gezi never happened, the anger at mass murder at Soma could not have...
Soma.jpg In keeping with tradition, the following is an interview with Turkish IWW member Yusuf Cemal about the Soma mining disaster. The anger has spread into even high schools, especially in Istanbul...
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The tragic week, Spain 1909 - Murray Bookchin
tragic.jpeg Murray Bookchin's history of the "tragic week": a spontaneous workers' uprising in Catalonia, Spain, which was isolated and crushed by the government, leaving hundreds dead. read more
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November 15: Class war, memory war! - Proletarios Revolucionarios
Ecuador.png Translated text from Proletarios Revolucionarios (“Revolutionary Proletarians”) from Ecuador, about the memory of the 15 November workers' uprising in Guayaquil in 1922, which was crushed...
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Strength of the street: Karachi 1972 - Kamran Asdar Ali
Bhutto.jpg A short history of the mass strike in Karachi in June, 1972 following the killings of three striking factory workers by police. read more
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Cordobazo, 1969, photo gallery
CORDOBAZO4W.jpg Photo gallery from the 1969 Cordobazo, which saw students and workers take part in a series of strikes, riots and demonstrations in a general uprising against the dictatorship of...
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In the year 1968: on the nationwide strike and university occupation in Helsinki
stop (1).jpg Imagine the following situation. Due to a strike, public transportation is paralyzed all over the country. Some restaurants and shops shut their doors and 30,000 people are gathered in...
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The general strike in Salford in 1911 - Edmund and Ruth Frow
Salford-troops-1911.jpg Great pamphlet about the largely successful general strike for better wages, shorter hours and union recognition in Salford, northern England in 1911.
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The bloody May of 1936 in Thessaloniki, Greece
Salonika-May-1936 1-1.jpg A general strike of the tobacco workers and other unions on May 8th 1936 led to the bloody events of May 9th. The police confronted the massive strike by opening fire on the...
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Against the conceptual dumbing down of the 2016 “movement” in France -...
WholsaleFoodMarketBlockade.jpgThis is a leaflet criticising the wildly inflated claims made about the recent "movement" against the new Labour Law in France and the accompanying degradation of...
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The general strike of 1842
1842-general-strike_400x231.jpg As many as half a million workers may have been caught up in a strike wave which linked demands for the Charter and an end to pay cuts. This page tells the story and...
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A general strike starting from refinery workers at the caribbean island of...
Picture1.png The strike of a week of refinery workers, followed by the general strike on September 15 in Curacao, has aroused much interest in the Caribbean. In particular, the fact that a mysterious...
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