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1944: Guatemala General Strike Overthrows Dictator
Dia_del_Maestro.jpg Workers and students in neighbouring El Salvador had driven out their dictator by using a general strike to cripple the regime. That same year Guatemalan workers and students also...
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1956: Haitian General Strike Against Dictator
magloire.png In 1956 Haitian workers and students turned to mass demonstrations, blockades and a general strike to rid itself of a Dictator Paul Eugène Magloire. However in the aftermath the nation was...
View Article1985: Sudanese General Strike Against Dictatorship
In 1985 workers and students protested and struck against worsening living conditions and greater repression, in particular the imposition of Sharia and conflict in the south. read more
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1991: Mali General Strike
7779-crop-banners-martyr-monument.jpg In March 1991 what Mali experienced what became known as the March revolution. A series of protests by students and democracy activists supported by a general...
View Article1994: Wallis and Futuna General Strike
Grievances over working conditions and a lack of state primary schools lead to several strikes in 1994 on the two pacific islands. read more
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1957: Colombian General Strike
pinilla58.gif A series of protest demonstration and a General Strike led to the downfall of the Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla and the restoration of free elections. Unfortunately this left Colombia...
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2005: Tonga Public Servants General Strike
36875-nzh.jpg In 2005 civil servants in Tonga began a wildcat strike for higher wages, the strike grew to include many other public sector workers and took on political reforms. read more
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The Chinese revolution 1925-1927
strikers1925.jpg A short account of the mass struggles in China from 1925 up to the Shanghai insurrection of 1927 and its crushing by the nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek, who was supported by the...
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The 1946 general strike of Rochester, New York
Rochester-general-strike.jpg A short history of the general strike in May 1946 in Rochester against the sacking of hundreds of municipal workers, written by Jon Garlock. read more
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Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira analyse Brazil’s political earthquake
Brazil-riots-bit.jpg In the following essay members of Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira, a member group of the Anarkismo network, analyse the series of mass protests, riots and rebellions which have...
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2007: Chad Government Employees Strike
74859598.jpg An account of the general srike of public sector workers in Chad. read more
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London mass strike, 1889
08.14.1889 London_Dock_Strike_of_1889 September 7.JPG A short account of the mass strike in London which spread from the great docks strike in the East End and peaked on 1 September with up to 300,000...
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Strike and protests against Macron's employment law
30cef65a8abe604b12a474fb20ae29[1].jpg Four unions called a general strike for today against French President Macron’s new employment law, this is often referred to as Macron 2 or Macron XXL, because he...
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Wobblies and Cossacks: The 1913 great strike
1913-general-strike.jpg A short history of the 1913 New Zealand general strike by Ciaran Doolin. read more
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General strike against state repression in Catalonia
catalonia.jpeg Workers in Catalonia have launched a general strike today in response to the brutal police repression following Sunday's Catalan independence referendum. We expect repression to increase...
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World War I struggles in Switzerland
Switzerland-strike.jpg An informative account of the wave of working class struggles which took place during and immediately following World War I in Switzerland, by Christian Koller.
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The Nairobi General Strike, 1950: From Protest to Insurgency
Government-Road-Nairobi-Kan (1).jpg The Nairobi General Strike [1950] was the culmination of Kenya’s post war strike wave and urban upheaval. An unprecedented upsurge occurred with the general strikes...
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The 1948 Zanzibar General Strike
Zanzibar Street scene. unatributed.jpg A history of the three week general strike in Zanzibar, 1948. read more
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The 1945 Nigerian General Strike
michael-imoudu.jpg In 1945 a general strike involving tens of thousands of workers began with railway workers, then spread to other nationalised industries including dock and civil service workers,...
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The general strike and Irish independence
1918-strike.jpg Interesting article by John Dorney on the syndicalist tactic of the general strike and its relationship with the struggle for Irish independence in the early 20th century.
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