A historical tale in which South African miners strike while Herbert Gladstone fiddles.
Radical Reprint: The Labour War in South Africa
Tag: Strikes
Radical Reprint: The Land and the Labourer
The July 1913 issue of Freedom features a lengthy article hooked on a major strike of agricultural workers in Ormskirk
UVW cleaners and NEU teachers in coordinated strike action
Negotiations have broken down and the cleaners will join forces with striking NEU teacher members on the 5 and 7 July.
Amazon cleaners to lead coordinated strike action
“We are all frustrated and we are overworked, our demands are just and fair.
Postal workers have made history
CWU members in Royal Mail Group have delivered the biggest ever return in a major national strike ballot.
Solidarity action in our schools holds key to victory
In the Department for Education (DfE)’s “Handling strike action in schools” document, the government has indicated that it “exp…
Charity workers in Birmingham join December’s Calendar of Chaos
Workers at the Asylum Support and Immigration Resource Team (ASIRT) charity in Birmingham have announced they will take strike action on 21 Decembe…
It’s all out for a new wave of strikes
Tube engineering worker and RMT rep Andy Littlechild writes on the background and forming of the latest strike wave, building the wave to a tsunami…
First Round to the Bar
So the Barristers Strike is off and all decent law breaking protestors can look forward to being sent down with the benefit of proper legal represe…
Agency workers during strikes – another dark day for UK employment law
MPs have recently voted in favour, 289-202, to allow for agency workers to be brought into a workplace by an employer during strike action, effecti…
Plan C: On the university pensions struggle
Elio Di Muccio writes on the encouraging strength of recent strike action and the potential for a more radical attack against the long programme of…
Students, Class and Wildcat Strikes: Why free education must have a basis in working-class struggle
Reaching its second day on Friday, the wildcat strike and picket at the School of Oriental and African Studies was successful in putting further pr…
Recent Articles
Starmer’s downfall – long time coming yet inevitable
The outgoing PM is a textbook example of a public figure who jettisoned principles in the search for power ~ Paul Gravett ~ The revolving door of U…
EU votes to speed up deportations
Removal of undocumented people becomes easier as far-right international continues to rise ~ Blade Runner ~ An alliance of centre-right and far-rig…
Notes from the US: Sadistic idiocy
MAGA apologists square multiple circles just in order to ‘live with themselves’ ~ Louis Further ~ A new study by members of the School …
Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland
Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Bashkir artist Semyon Skr…
Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
