Along with the ongoing protests against the Policing Bill, the past month has seen another, less high-profile struggle playing out across the UK, …
Construction rank and file blockades Hinkley Point against de-skilling
Tag: strike
Deliveroo workers to strike over exploitative practices and low pay
Hundreds of Deliveroo riders from across the UK are expected to strike in an action to coincide with the company’s IPO valuation, taking plac…
Rank-and-file electricians preparing for major showdown in construction
Construction is one of the few industries left today where there’s still a living tradition of self-organised rank-and-file militancy, especi…
Spain: striking field workers call for solidarity
On 14th January, the workers of the British company Fresh Tom Export in Almería (South Spain), a vegetable grower and trading company specialising…
Outsourced University of Greenwich workers vote to strike for equality
The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) Universities of London Branch voted for industrial action at the University of Greenwich t…
Deliveroo and Uber riders in Sheffield strike for a living wage and due process
Members of the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) Couriers & Logistics Branch in Sheffield are going on strike today against …
Germany: Seasonal workers force farm bosses to pay up
Creditors who had taken over the Spargel Ritter asparagus farm in Bornheim, Bonn, thought they could get away without paying what they owed to low-…
Met police threaten to arrest entire UVW strike picket (again!)
For the second day in a row, officers from the Met threatened to arrest all those participating in a United Voices of the World (UVW) strike picket…
Lecturers and cleaners stand together as 1,000 picket UCL
Up to 1,000 members of academics union UCU and base union IWGB and their supporters walked the pickets today as part of the first-ever joint strike…
UCL outsourcing dispute: Are you listening now, provost?
Our man on the ground reports on yesterday’s rowdy IWGB union pickets at University College London (UCL) against outsourcing and for pay pari…
Fighting for £15: A McStrike Day Report
Workers at six McDonald’s restaurants in South London walked out yesterday to demand £15 an hour for workers of all ages, as well as guarant…
Not lovin’ it: McDonald’s workers to walk out of 6 South London stores
The Bakers Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) has today notified 6 London McDonald’s stores that its members will go on strike on 12 Novemb…
Libertarian manifesto on the Ecuadorian crisis
The following text comes from the leaflet distributed by the group “Solidaridad Anarquista Ecuatoriana” (SAE) on the streets of E…
St Mungo’s staff ballot to strike – and reject sellout to Home Office
Workers at homelessness charity St Mungo’s have had enough of being made to hand over data to the Home Office, demanding that the practice be…
‘Unofficial industrial action’ at MGT Power Plant in Teesside enters 5th day
The workers at MGT Power Plant in Teesside start day five of their spontaneous protest today.
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Lament for a lost revolution
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