The Stockade Stood Burning: rebellion and the convict lease in Tennessee’s coalfields, 1891-1895
Something happened in Tennessee, something almost unimaginable to the mine owners and politicians of that
state. When the companies tried to intimidate their workers by bringing in convict labor to take over their jobs, the workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prisoners, and loading them onto freight trains bound for Nashville and Knoxville and places far away...The Tennessee convict war was one of the largest insurrections in American working-class history. And yet, unfolding at exactly the same time as the more publicized labor wars in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, it was largely ignored.
Solidarity strikers accuse bosses of blacklisting in Bologna
Submitted by Ed on Sep 27 2017 16:18
After days of being locked out of their warehouse for showing solidarity with colleagues on strike in Carpiano, workers at SDA Bologna are being allowed back in based on a list, which the union says is targeting their members.
外卖小哥好欺负？全欧洲的送餐员已经联合起来了！
Submitted by sjzc on Sep 27 2017 03:10
外卖骑手的斗争精神在这场横跨欧洲的罢工中被解放出来，本应弱小、无力的工人，如今用激进、直接的行动表达着他们对资本的敌意。
Workers stabbed and hit by car as pro-boss mob attacks picket
Submitted by Ed on Sep 26 2017 09:25
One worker was stabbed and another hit by a car as a group of striking workers outside an SDA warehouse in Carpiano, near Milan, was ambushed last night by a group of over 100 attackers armed with knives and metal bars.
Union suspends bin strike again
Submitted by QQ on Sep 25 2017 23:05
Unite union have suspended the bin strike again, after a court granted an interim injunction against the Birmingham council.
Wobblies and Cossacks: The 1913 great strike
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 25 2017 13:22
A short history of the 1913 New Zealand general strike by Ciaran Doolin.
Photo gallery: warehouse workers' strike spreads across Italy
Submitted by Ed on Sep 22 2017 22:38
Image gallery of the strikes in Italy's warehouses, which have spread from one warehouse in Carpiano, just outside Milan, to warehouses at several cities across the country. Images taken from the SI Cobas Facebook page.
Warehouse strikes across Italy as management tear up workers’ rights
Submitted by Ed on Sep 22 2017 10:41
Solidarity strikes have broken out at warehouses across Italy, with workers blocking entrance gates in some places, after an outsourcing company has attempted to attack the hard-won rights of workers at a warehouse on the outskirts of Milan.
Uber drivers in Kenya on indefinite strike
Submitted by Mike Harman on Sep 21 2017 18:55
Drivers for Uber, Taxify, Little and Mondo-Ride have been on indefinite strike since 11th September over working conditions and high commission rates.
Interview: 100 days of the Kenya nurses strike
Submitted by Mike Harman on Sep 21 2017 12:45
Nurses in Kenya have been on strike for more than 100 days. The government has declared the strike illegal and started sacking nurses. Nurses have continued their action despite this, with an almost total shutdown of public hospitals across Kenya and demonstrations weekly. Mike Harman interviewed Nahashon, one of the nurses on strike, for libcom.org.
