- Adalen shootings
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A series of events in and around the sawmill district of Ådalen, Kramfors Municipality, Ångermanland, Sweden, in May 1931 during which five persons were killed by Swedish military troops called in as reinforcements by the police.
- African Mine Workers' Strike of 1946
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike, by mine workers of Witwatersrand, which started on August 12, 1946 and lasted around 1 week. The strike was attacked by police and over the week, at least 1,248 workers were wounded and at least 9 killed.
- Against All Odds
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1985
The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
- The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
- Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
Dispute between the Phelps Dodge Corporation and a unionized copper miners.
- Arvida Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Began July 24, 1941 when some 700 workers in the Aluminium Co. of Canada (Alcan) in Arvida, Québec, spontaneously walked off the job.
- Asbestos Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
The Asbestos Strike of 1949, based in and around Asbestos, Quebec, Canada, was a four-month labour dispute by the asbestos miners.
- Asbestos Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The Asbestos Strike of 1949, based in and around Asbestos, Quebec, Canada, was a four-month labour dispute by the asbestos miners.
- The Asturias revolt, 1934
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
An account of the 1934 uprising by Asturian miners in Spain. Beginning as part of a nationwide general strike, the revolt grew into one of the most widespread rebellions of the pre-revolution era.
- Athenians Teach a New Lesson in (Workers) Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The Popular Assembly at Syntagma has been able to go beyond democratic discussion to democratic decisions but the construction of real workers democracy is still under way. While thousands take part in the assembly, there are five million living in Athens and millions more in the rest of Greece. To democratically include all these millions requires a system of delegation, in which delegates from neighborhoods and workplaces attend city-wide assemblies and delegates from these attend a nationwide assembly.
- Australia: 1966 Aboriginal Stockmen's Strike
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the courageous Aboriginal stockmen's strike at the Wave Hill cattle station in the Northern Territory (NT). On 23 August 1966, head stockman Vincent Lingiari led 200 workers out on strike against the appalling conditions under which they were forced to live and work. They walked off with their families to a nearby welfare settlement and later set up camp at Daguragu (also known as Wattie Creek). This strike by Aboriginal workers for equal pay and conditions, and protesting the abusive treatment of Aboriginal women, provided an opportunity for class-struggle unity between Indigenous and white workers.
- Australian maritime dispute of 1890
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Was the first of four great strikes that rocked Australasia in the 1890s, which caused political and social turmoil across all Australian colonies and in New Zealand, including the collapse of colonial governments in the colonies of Victoria and New South Wales.
- Australian shearers' strike of 1891
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
One of Australia's oldest and most important industrial disputes. Working conditions for sheep shearers in 19th century Australia were considered by those in the industry to be less than optimal. In 1891 wool was one of Australia's largest industries. But as the wool industry grew, so did the number and influence of shearers.
- Australian waterfront dispute of 1998
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Severe and protracted industrial relations dispute, primarily between the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and Patrick Corporation, a stevedoring and transportation company.
- Auto-Lite strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike against the Electric Auto-Lite company of Toledo, Ohio, from April 12 to June 3, 1934.
- Banana massacre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Matanza de las bananeras or Masacre de las bananeras was a massacre of workers for the United Fruit Company that occurred on December 6, 1928 in the town of Ciénaga near Santa Marta, Colombia.
- Battle of Ballantyne Pier
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A clash between city, provincial, and federal police and Communist-led protesters on 18 June 1935 in the East End of Vancouver.
- Battle of Blair Mountain
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
In 1921 between 10,000 and 15,000 coal miners confronted company-paid private detectives in an effort to unionize the southwestern West Virginia mine counties.
- Battle of Matewan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A shootout in the coal company town of Matewan, West Virginia on May 19, 1920.
- Battle of Orgreave
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A confrontation between police and picketing miners at a British Steel coking plant in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, in 1984, during the UK miners' strike.
- The Battle of Orgreave
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The Battle of Orgreave on 18 June, 1984, saw the establishment carry out a mighty state-organised riot, a conspiracy to trap striking miners and unleash brutality on a scale never experienced before in an industrial dispute in Britain.
- Bay View Massacre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A massacre of demonstrators by the Wisconsin National Guard.
- Beautiful Trouble - Pocket Edition
A Toolbox for Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Ideas for organizers.
- Big Strikes and the sabotage of the labor movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
- Biggest Strike In China's History Enters 6th Day: Police Arrested Organizers, Workers Battle SWAT Troops
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The largest strike in China's history has entered the sixth day, defying state attempts to repress workers struggling against economic and social injustice. Police arrested several organizers of the strikers at the Yue Yuen factory, which produces shoes for Nike and Adidas.
- Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
A 28-day national coal strike in the United States led by the United Mine Workers of America,
- Bread and Roses
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The slogan "Bread and Roses" originated in a poem of that name by James Oppenheim, published in The American Magazine in December 1911, which attributed it to "the women in the West." It is commonly associated with a textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts during January-March 1912, now often known as the "Bread and Roses strike".
- Break Their Haughty Power
Resource Type: Website
Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
- Brisbane general strike of 1912
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The 1912 Brisbane General Strike in Queensland, Australia, began when members of the Australian Tramway Employees Association were dismissed when they wore union badges to work.
- British Columbia Woodworkers' Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
15 May - 20 June 1946. Twenty-seven thousand workers in both the coast and interior regions, led by district president Harold Pritchett, struck when demands for a 25-cent hourly increase, a 40-hour week, union shop and mandatory dues check-off were refused by Stuart Research Service, the bargaining agent for 145 coast operators.
- Broken Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion in Victory, Defeat, and Beyond
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
An analysis of the 2006 Oaxaca rebellion and its contradictions. Its diversity encompassed workers, indigenous groups, Stalinists, anarchists and others. Its weapons and tactics included general assemblies, strikes, barricades, mirrors and fireworks.
- Buffalo switchmen's strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike in August 1892 by railroad workers employed by three railroads in Buffalo, New York.
- Bureaucratic mass strikes: A response to Mark O'Brien
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The mass strike of 30 November 2011 (N30) was the broadest and biggest ever British public sector strike and involved the largest number of women workers in any British strike. Dave Lyddon comments.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- The Canadian Initiative on Workplace Violence
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Cananea strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike took place in the Mexican mining town of Cananea, Sonora, in June 1906.
- The Canso Strait Fisherman's Strike, 1970-71
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
An account of the 1970-71 strike of Nova Scotia fishermen, after two large fisheries refused to recognize their newly formed union.
- Cape Breton Strikes, 1920s
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
The Cape Breton labour wars of the early 1920s represented an intense local episode of class conflict. In such conflicts militant unions, often led by radical leaders, were attempting to change the balance of power in Canadian industry by insisting on union recognition and improved living standards for the workers.
- Centralia Massacre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A violent and bloody incident that occurred in the town of Centralia, Washington on November 11, 1919 during a parade celebrating the first anniversary of Armistice Day.
- China in Revolt
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Few in the West are aware of the drama unfolding in today’s “epicenter of global labor unrest.” A scholar of China exposes its tumultuous labor politics and their lessons for the Left.
- China on Strike
Narratives of Workers' Resistance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
Through first person accounts, the book details the growing unrest, destabilization and strikes in factories that are gripping China.
- Colorado Labor Wars
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Colorado's most significant battles between labor and capital which occurred primarily between miners and mine operators.
- Columbine Mine massacre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A conflict in which police and mine guards attacked striking coal miners with machine guns.
- Common Front Strikes
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Cartel of Québec public- and para-public-sector trade unions formed in 1972 to negotiate with the provincial government.
- Common Sense for Hard Times
The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 3 - Fall 1984 - Housing - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
- Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
- Connexions Library: Radical and Left History Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2012
- Convict and Immigrant Detainee Struggles Converge in Strike Wave
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
There was a time in the United States when it was not only common knowledge, but commonly reported, legislated, and adjudicated that crime is a function of poverty. This went out sometime during the Carter Administration, its demise heralded by the appearance in 1975 of James Q. Wilson's Thinking About Crime, where he first aired the broken-windows theory,which holds that punishment has to be harsh for minor violations of public order to incentivize criminals against larger violations.
- Copperbelt strike of 1935
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike action which performed by African mineworkers in the Copperbelt (then in Northern Rhodesia, today called Zambia) to protest against unfair taxes imposed by the British colonial authorities.
- Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A five-month strike by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA.
- Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
- Crowsnest Pass Strike, 1932
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A strike that began in January 1932 with demands that companies divide available work in the depressed coal-mining industry equally among miners rather than playing favourites. Coal companies refused to deal with the workers' union, the Mine Workers' Union of Canada.
- Cry for "Bread & Roses" Still Resonates
100 Years After the Lawrence Strike
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
When worker solidarity prevailed over corporate power in the icy streets of Lawrence a century ago, it made the promise of a better life real for many. The Bread and Roses strike became a consciousness-raising experience, not only for textile workers and their families, but the nation as a whole.
- Delano grape strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike, boycott, and secondary boycott led by the United Farm Workers (UFW) against growers of table grapes in California.
- Derailing Neoliberalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Haines-Doran examines the British transit workers' stike against rail privitization with its lack of concern for safety, unions, and workers' rights.
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Digging deeper: Issues in the miners' strike
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- Doubling Down in Atlantic City
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The casino workers' strike at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino is a defining battle for American labor.
- Drumheller Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Drumheller miners, rejecting wage cuts negotiated by the United Mine Workers, struck in June 1925.
- Dublin Lockout
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
a major industrial dispute between approximately 20,000 workers and 300 employers which took place in Ireland's capital city of Dublin from 26 August 1913 to 18 January 1914.
- The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
1845-1875
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- Estevan Coal Miners' Strike, 1931
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A strike which led to the murder of three miners by the RCMP.
- February strike (The Netherlands)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A general strike organized during World War II in The Netherlands against the anti-Jewish measures and activities by the Nazis.
- Flint Sit-Down Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Changed the United Automobile Workers from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major union and led to the unionization of the United States automobile industry.
- Fort William Freight Handlers Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A strike by 700 non-unionized immigrants in August 1909 that was defeated by the use of militia and the RCMP and resulted in the firing of hundreds of workers.
- 45 Days of Solidarity
How Verizon workers outmatched the country's largest telecommunications company.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The strike by 39,000 Verizon workers -- members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) -- ended after forty-five days with a tentative agreement announced late last week.
- Fraser River Fishermen's Strikes
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A strikes by whites, natives and Japanese fishermen against salmon canneries that lined the lower Fraser River.
- Fraser River Railway Strikes
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Strikes which started in March 1912 when railway workers organized by the Industrial Workers of the World walked out of construction camps on the Canadian Northern line to protest conditions.
- From Mass Strike to New Society
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Jeremy Brecher examines where and how mass strikes have progressed into the working class attempting to run society in its own interests and the lessons we can learn from them.
- General Strike France 1968
A factory-by-factory account
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Andre Hoyles analyses the development, organisation and end of the mass strike in France, 1968, with reference to case studies of particular factories.
- Martin and Jessie Glaberman Collection
Papers, 1939-2001
Resource Type: Unclassified
The papers of the Marxist radicals Martin Glaberman and Jessie Glaberman, now housed at Wayne State University.
- Grabow Riot
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A confrontation between timber workers and owners in Louisiana.
- The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against G.M. 1936-37
How Industrial Unionism was Won
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1967
A history of the Flint strike (1936-1937).
- Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States and ended some 45 days later after it was put down by local and state militias.
- Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads involving more than 200,000 workers.
- Great Strike of 1913
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A near general strike that took place in New Zealand in 1913.
- Guide to taking strike action
Tips and advice on how to effectively organise and carry out strike action at your workplace.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Our labour is the ultimate weapon that workers possess. Without workers bosses cannot make a profit. Strike action can be very powerful, but at the same time it, at the very least, reduces take home pay. More worryingly it may also lead to dismissal. Hardly, surprising therefore, that strike action is usually last resort taken of workers.
- Haymarket affair
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Disturbance that took place on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.
- Haywood, Bill (Big Bill Haywood)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American unionist and communist, one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (1869-1928).
- Herrin massacre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Occurred in June 1922 in Herrin, Illinois where 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners were killed in mob action between June 21-22, 1922.
- Homestead Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A labour lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892.
- The Iceland women's strike, 1975
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A short history of the strike, or day off, by the of women in Iceland for equality with men on 24 October, 1975.
- Indianapolis Street Car Strike of 1913
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The Indianapolis Street Car Strike of 1913, the Indianapolis Police Mutiny of 1913, and the 1913 Indianapolis Riots began as a workers strike by the union employees of the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company and occurred during November 1913.
- Invergordon Mutiny
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An industrial action by sailors in the British Atlantic Fleet that took place in September 1931. For two days, ships of the Royal Navy at Invergordon were in open mutiny.
- Joelito's Big Decision
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Story of ten-year old Joelito, who learns about the struggle for economic justice as he heads toward the door of MacMann’s Burger Restaurant for his regular Friday-night family dinner.
- Journalists and media attacked during general strike in Nepal
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates, the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) and the Nepal Press Union (NPU), in condemning several incidents of attacks on journalists and media workers during the general strike
- Labour Left Out
Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- The Labor Wars
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
- Lattimer massacre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The killing of 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite coal miners at the Lattimer mine near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1897, by a sheriff's posse.
- Lawrence textile strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World. The strike is often known as the "Bread and Roses" strike, or, "The Strike for Three Loaves".
- Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Occurred as a result of rapid industrialization and consolidation of the mining industry.
- The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
Blending a passionate sensibility and a steely intellect with an unshakeable commitment to revolutionary socialism, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. In this comprehensive collection selection of Luxemburg's letters, her political concerns are revealed alongside the story of a vivid inner life.
- London Dock Strike of 1889
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An industrial dispute involving dock workers in the Port of London which resulted in a victory for the strikers and established strong trade unions amongst London dockers.
- London matchgirls strike of 1888
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike of the women and teenage girls working at a match factory in London.
- Loray Mill Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
One of the best known labor strikes in the history of the United States.
- Lowell Mill Girls
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Female textile workers in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.
- Ludlow massacre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The violent deaths of 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914.
- Lupeni Strike of 1929
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Near the end of 1928, miners' leaders in the Jiu Valley had begun agitating for an extension of their collective work contract.The two sides could not reach an agreement. A trial, and then a strike ensued. The strike was glorified by the Communist regime as a symbol of the struggle of labour against capitalism.
- The Making of Jericho Road
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
- Manoir Richelieu Dispute
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Few labour disputes have included such dramatic developments as the eventful Manoir Richelieu conflict, which shook Quebec in December 1985 when the Parti Québécois government sold the property, a renowned tourism heritage site, to businessman Raymond Malenfant for $555 555.55.The new owner maintained that he had purchased only a building and was not bound through the transaction by any obligation to the union or the existing collective bargaining agreement.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 26
Engels 1882 - 1889
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1889
Includes Manuscripts on Early German History and The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, and Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, and The Role of Force in History
- Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
Over the last several years, a revolving network of militants in Paris, France, have developed a strategy and tactics for winning strikes by marginal, low-paid, outsourced and immigrant workers against international chains, in situations where the strikers are often ignored by unions to which they nominally belong, or are actually obstructed by them.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1906
Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
- Miners' strike: senior officer was 'appalled' at conduct of other police
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A senior police officer breaks ranks to describe how he and others were "appalled" at the behaviour of colleagues during the 1984-85 miners' strike in the UK, as calls mount for a fresh inquiry into the policing of the dispute.
- Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike by Teamsters against most of the trucking companies operating in Minneapolis.
- Miramichi Lumber Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
The Miramichi Lumber Strike began 20 August 1937 when 1500 millworkers and longshoremen along the Miramichi River in northern New Brunswick struck 14 lumber firms for increased wages, shorter working hours and union recognition.
- More than one way to strike
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
Rather than simply walk away from their vehicles, drivers could keep driving, but refuse to collect fares. This puts pressure on the employer without inconveniencing riders.
- Murdochville Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
On 10 March 1957 the 1000 workers of Gaspé Copper Mines, Murdochville, Qué, struck for the right to unionize. The conflict lasted 7 months and ended in defeat for the miners.
- New Orleans general strike of 1892
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A general strike in the U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana, that began on November 8, 1892.
- The new strikes in China
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
An article by "friends of gongchao" describes the development of strikes in China in recent years as well as the strike at Yue Yuen shoe factories in Dongguan, South China, in April 2014.
- New Zealand waterfront dispute of 1951
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The largest and most widespread industrial dispute in New Zealand history.
- Newfoundland Loggers' Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
The Newfoundland Loggers' Strike began 31 December 1958 when hundreds of loggers employed by Anglo-Newfoundland Development Co at Grand Falls struck for wage increases and for improvements in living conditions at wood camps.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- Newsboys Strike of 1899
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A youth-led campaign to force change in the way that Joseph Pulitzer's and William Randolph Hearst's newspapers compensated their child labor force.
- The Newsletter
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of independent leftists primarily based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published. Copies of the newsletters are available in the Connexions Archive and online on the Connexions website.
- The Newsletter #5
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
- 1905
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
For a number of years, when the reaction was triumphant, the year 1905 appeared to us as a completed whole, as the Russian revolution.
- Obsolete Communism
The Left-Wing Alternative
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
- Oshawa Strike 1937
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
In 1937, more than 4000 workers if General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ontario, went on strike to fight for better wages and working conditions.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
Organizing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
Urban agriculture and local food production
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it.
This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement.
Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence.
Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures.
Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism.
- Our Generation
Volume 10 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
- Pain on Their Faces
Testimonies on the Paper Mill Strike, Jay, Manie, 1987-1988
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
An accourt of an epic struggle by workers and their community against a powerful and aggressive corporation -- a strike by 1,250 workers against the International Paper Company in Jay, Maine, in 1987-88. Over 40- testimonies by strikers and their supporters explain in their own words the significance of this struggle for themselves, their families, their community and future generations.
- Palestine Strike
Arabs and Jews Unite
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1946
The biggest strikes in the history of Palestine far surpassing any other which have taken place, broke out last month (April 1946). 32,000 workers came out, of which 26,000 were Arabs and 6,000 Jews.
- Palestinian general strike 1936
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Part of the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.
- Pay Cheques & Picket Lines
All About Unions in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
A children's book which explains what unions are, how they came to be, and why they exist.
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Picketing
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A form of protest in which people congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place. Often, this is done in an attempt to dissuade others from going in ("crossing the picket line"), but it can also be done to draw public attention to a cause.
- Pilbara strike of 1946
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike by Indigenous Australian pastoral workers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for human rights recognition and payment of fair wages and working conditions.
- The Political Mass Strike
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1913
If we want to prove ourselves worthy of the great coming events then we must not begin at the wrong end by attempting to make technical preparations for the mass strike. When the situation is ripe, the tactic of the mass strike will present itself. Let us not rack our brains about supporting it at the right time. What is necessary is that you watch the party press to ensure that it is your instrument and expresses your opinion and your mood. You must also see to it that our parliamentarians feel a mass pressing them from behind.
- The Politics of Nonviolent Action
Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An encyclopedic treatment of the theory and practice of nonviolence, with a detailed examination of 198 specific methods of the technique — illustrated with actual cases — within the broad classes of nonviolent protest and persuasion, non-cooperation (social, economic and political) and nonviolent intervention.
- Port Chicago mutiny
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A refusal by servicemen to load munitions in 1944 in the face of unsafe working conditions which had led to an explosion the previous month in which 320 sailors had been killed.
- Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
The story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant.
- Post-World War II demobilization strikes
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Strikes within Allied military forces stationed across the Middle East, India and South-East Asia in the months and years following World War II.
- La Presse Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Two days later, the 3 main Union Centrals defied a municipal ban to organize a huge march in solidarity with the newspaper workers. More than 12 000 people clashed with 100 Montréal policemen. The outcome was some 50 arrests, several dozen injuries and one death from natural causes.
- Pride
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2014
Based on a true story, the film depicts a group of lesbian and gay activists who raised money to help families affected by the British miners' strike in 1984, at the outset of what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign.
- The problem of the one-day strike: a response to Sean Vernell
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
An overview of the wave of strikes that took place over the issue of pensions across public sector trade unions between March 2011 and June 2012.
- Producers' strike at CBC/Société Radio-Canada
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A strike by producers at Société Radio-Canada in Montréal in 1958-59.
- Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A United States trade union which operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following a strike which was broken by the Reagan Administration.
- Pullman Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A nationwide conflict between labour unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894.
- Québec Shoe Workers' Lockout
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A lockout of Quebec shoe workers in 1900.
- Rank and File
Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
- The Real Cost of a Cheap Burger
Fastfood Workers Go Hungry: Is that the American Dream?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
America’s fastfood outlets are not restaurants but food systems serviced by cheap labour in de-skilled jobs — employees so badly paid that they need state aid and charity. They went on strike in North Carolina last summer.
- Red cap terror at the moussaka line: West London ready-meal workers' report and leaflet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Workplace report for WorkersWildWest no.5 and leaflet for future distribution. Main challenge will be the migrant status of workers - there have been various police raids in the plant - and the language and contract division.
- Red Clydeside
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A term used to describe the era of political radicalism that characterised the city of Glasgow in Scotland, and urban areas around the city on the banks of the River Clyde such as Clydebank, Greenock and Paisley.
- Reesor Siding Strike of 1963
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A labour conflict which resulted in the shooting of 11 union members.
- Relentless Persistence
Nonviolent Action in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
- Remembering Another Occupy
Anniversary of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike Wave
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
- Remington Rand strike of 1936-1937
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike against the Remington Rand company.
- Renewal through Strike
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Strikes are a major means of trade union self-assertion. A closer look at strikes in Germany reveals interesting trends and developments, indicating new approaches to trade union strategies and practices.
- Review Essay: Are Strikes Over?
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Moody reviews and critiques Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings by Joshua Clover.
- Review of the Press - November 21, 1975
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
It's probably no surprise to most people that Toronto's three dailies are all anti-union and anti-working-class. But it takes a big strike, like the postal strike or the school strike, to bring out the lengths to which they are willing to go in smearing strikers and in insulting our intelligence.
- Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
- Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
- Rothbury Riot
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An incident in which police shot into a crowd of locked-out miners in the New South Wales.
- Saga of the Neptune Jade
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1997, a container-ship sailed through the Golden Gate into San Francisco Bay and tied up at the Yusen Terminal in the port of Oakland. This precipitated an international drama that ranges from Liverpool, England, Vancouver, Canada, and on across the Pacific to Japan. The battle involves British, American, Canadian and Japanese longshoremen, college students, labor supporters, and the bosses' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA).
- Saint Louis general strike 1877
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Generally accepted as the first general strike in America, the 1877 Saint Louis general strike grew out of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. The general strike was largely organized by the Knights of Labor and the Marxist-leaning Workingmen's Party, the main radical political party of the era.
- Saskatchewan Doctors' Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A strike against the introduction of medicare by Saskatchewan doctors in 1962.
- Scargill, Arthur
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
British trade unionist and political party leader. (Born 1938).
- Seattle General Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A general work stoppage by over 65,000 workers in the U.S. city of Seattle, Washington in 1919.
- Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
- Selective strikes
Rather than an all-out strike, rapid random stoppages can be highly effective
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Unpredictability is a great weapon in the hands of the workers. In the US, Pennsylvania teachers used the Selective Strike to great effect in 1991, when they walked a picket line on Monday and Tuesday, reported for work on Wednesday, struck again on Thursday, and reported for work on Friday and Monday.
- Silvertown
The Lost Story of a Strike That Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labor Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
In 1889, Samuel Winkworth Silver's rubber and electrical factory was the site of a massive worker revolt. The factory was notorious for oppressive working conditions and its largely unorganized, unskilled workers. Eventually they aligned themselves with the socialist-led "New Unionism" movement. This book narrates those events.
- Sitdown strike or occupation guide
A guide to taking sit-down strike action or occupations, in which by suddenly refusing to work gains can be won rapidly
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
A strike doesn't have to be long to be effective. Timed and executed right, a strike can be won in minutes. Such strikes are "sitdowns" or "occupations" when everyone just stops work and sits tight, or "mass grievances" when everybody leaves work to go to the boss's office to discuss some matter of importance. This can have many advantages over a conventional strike.
- Slaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
- The Socialist Register 1972
Volume 9: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1972
- The Socialist Register 1973
Volume 10: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- The Socialist Register 1985/1986
Volume 22: Social Democracy and After
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
- Steel Strike
Hamilton 1946
Resource Type: Book
- Steel strike of 1952
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike by the United Steelworkers of America against U.S. Steel and nine other steelmakers.
- Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
- The Strike and Its Enemies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Like the progressive labour bureaucrats, today’s generation of young radicals have spent all of their formative years living in the era of capitalist realism — the era of There is No Alternative. And it’s perhaps for this reason that each tenet of the union bureaucrat philosophy finds its distorted mirror-image in the views of the young anti-union radicals. They tend to believe that middle-class intellectuals and full-time activists should take the lead role in strategy and that these groups do not have different material interests than rank-and-file workers. That building “communes,” rather than confronting capital, should be the movement’s main mission.
- Strike strategy today
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Why has the use of the strike in the US become so scarce? While subjective factors are more difficult to quantify, certain basic reasons seem more readily evident. Union membership, particularly in the private sector, is at an all-time low. Most of the unions are heavily bureaucratized, and central labor councils ossified. "Sympathy strikes," long ago outlawed by Taft-Hartley, militate against the sort of broad-based solidarity so essential to an industrial victory. Moreover, many unions have accepted no-strike clauses for the duration of their contracts, effectively tying one hand behind their backs.
- The strike that led to Tahir Square
An act of courage that launched a revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Labour struggles at Egypt's largest cotton mill, starting in 2006, laid the groundwork for the revolution of 2011.
- Strikes
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work.
- Strikes and Lockouts
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A strike is the withholding of labour by workers in order to obtain better working conditions; such withholding of labour is generally accompanied by demonstrations, such as picketing, parades, meetings. A lockout is the opposite, being the temporary shutdown of a business by an employer to compel employees to accept certain conditions.
- Strikes in South Korea 1996-1997
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
In December 1996 and January 1997, South Korea experienced the largest organized strike in its history, when workers in the automotive and shipbuilding industries refused to work in protest against a law which was to make firing employees easier for employers and curtail labor organizing rights.
- Strikes, List of
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The following is a list of deliberate absence from work related to specific working conditions (strikes) or due to general unhappiness with the political order (general strikes).
- The Struggle at Peugeot in France
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
When the management of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group announced, in early July 2012, that it was eliminating 8,000 jobs and closing the Aulnay plant near Paris (3,000 employees) in 2014, it caused a shock wave, well beyond the workers in the automotive sector.
- The Struggle of the 'Mill Girls'
Class Consciousness in Early 19th Century New England
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
This article traces the development of class consciousness of and the antagonism between capitalists and the Lowell and Lawrence "Mill Girls" in the earlier half of the 19th Century in New England.
- Sweat and Struggle
Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Tax Facts, Nos. 1-9
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Textile workers strike (1934)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states.
- A Troublemaker's Handbook
How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
- A Troublemaker's Handbook 2
Resource Type: Book
A manual for workers who want to take control over their lives at work. In hundreds of first-person accounts, workers tell in their own words how they organized and struggled to do that.
- The Two Methods of Trade-Union Policy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1907
To be sure, revolutions and revolutionary struggles cannot be transplanted artificially, by means of ‘good intentions’, into a country. But the examples and lessons of a neighbouring revolutionary country can at least shake the belief that treading softly is the only method of achieving bliss. And well they should.
- UFCW: Strategy of Appeasement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
- United Kingdom general strike of 1926
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The 1926 General Strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike called by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the government to act to prevent wage reduction and worsening conditions for coal miners.
- UK miners' strike (1984 - 1985)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1985
A major industrial action affecting the British coal industry.
- Unless Union Workers Can Strike, They're Dead
Level the Playing Field
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The strike is workers' only viable weapon. Why? Because it, and it alone, immediately affects the company’s profits. Without labour, they're crippled.
- U.S. Strikes Drop Dramatically
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
A decade of Reaganism has left employers in a position to destroy unions without fear of significant political and public retribution.
- Vancouver general strike of 1918
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The first general strike in Canadian history, held 2 August 1918, organized as a one-day political protest against the killing of draft evader and labour activist Albert "Ginger" Goodwin, who had called for a general strike in the event that any worker was drafted against their will.
- Vancouver Island Coal Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A strike that began in September 1912 when miners at declared a holiday to protest the firing of a worker.
- Waihi miners' strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A major strike action in 1912 by gold miners in the New Zealand town of Waihi.
- Wapping dispute
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A significant turning point in the history of the trade union movement and of UK industrial relations.
- The War after the War
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- "We Called a Strike and No One Came"
or Confessions of SDSers (An Allegorical Epic with Footnotes)
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- West Coast Longshore Strikes, 1923 and 1935
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Strikes by members of the International Longshoremen's Association.
- West Coast waterfront strike 1934
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The 1934 West Coast Longshoremen's Strike lasted eighty-three days, triggered by sailors and a four-day general strike in San Francisco, and led to the unionization of all of the West Coast ports of the United States.
- West Virginia Mine War of 1912-1913
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A confrontation between striking coal miners and coal operators in Southern West Virginia
- Western Federation of Miners
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Radical labor union that gained a reputation for militancy in the mines of the western United States and British Columbia.
- Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910 - 1911
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike by coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers of America, is also known as the "Slovak strike" because about 70 percent of the miners were Slovakian immigrants.
- Who Advocates Spontaneity?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
- Why I'm on the Picket Line
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Teacher Tara Ehrcke talks about why she voted to strike in Greater Victoria, British Columbia: The "public" in public school shouldn't mean just providing a building, with some tired teachers to deliver a curriculum, the success of which is measured by standardized tests. A good public school system should provide high quality opportunities to every single child. While our public schools have many wonderful programs and many dedicated teachers, the sad truth is that there are also overcrowded classrooms, children falling behind, and a workforce exhausted from trying to fill in the gaps.
- Why Strikes Fail
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1943
Essentially a reprint of Tom Brown's 1943 essay, "The Social General Strike: Why 1926 Failed." Centres on workers' response to the British General Strike of 1926, and their repudiation of traditional representation in unions and formen.
- Wildcat or official strike action?
A discussion of the relative merits of official strike action or unsanctioned wildcat action
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
The best-known form of direct action is the strike, in which workers simply walk off their jobs and refuse to produce profits for the boss until they get what they want. This is the preferred tactic of bureaucratic unions but is one of the least effective ways of confronting the boss.
- Windsor Strike 1945
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Windsor Strike, 12 Sept-20 Dec 1945, at the WINDSOR, Ont, plant of Ford Motor Co. There was really only one strike issue at Ford: union recognition. The united automobile workers demanded it; the company refused to grant it.
- Winnipeg 1919
The strikers' own history of the Winnipeg General Strike
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
The Winnipeg General Strike was a landmark in Canadian political and labour history. This book, with the lively and clearly-written strikers' account of the strike and more than 40 photos of major strike events, offers the perspective on the strike of the people who organized it. Second edition.
- Winnipeg General Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was one of the most influential strikes in Canadian history, and became the platform for future labour reforms. In March 1919 labour delegates from across Western Canada convened in Calgary to form a branch of the "One Big Union", with the intention of earning rights for Canadian workers through a series of strikes.
- Winter of Discontent
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A term used to describe the British winter of 1978-1979, during which there were widespread strikes by local authority trade unions demanding larger pay raises for their members.
- Worker Cooperatives in America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
A historical background of worker cooperatives as well as a contemporary discussion of small and large co-ops.
- Worker Resistance in Telecommunications
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
LABOR RESISTANCE SEEMS to be spreading, capturing public support, and even winning some gains here and there. Such diverse groups as New York cabbies and construction workers, California nurses and transit workers, UPS and GM workers have gone to the streets against the affects of work intensification and industry reorganization.
Less and less are today's strikes characterized by tiny dispirited picket lines, and more and more by mass actions. Job security, work time, work loads and...
- Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An account of the May-June 1968 events in Paris. The authors state that "our intention is not to 'clarify' the sequence of events which took place in France in order to make possible a ritual repetition of these events, but rather to contrast the limited views we had of the events at the time we were engaged in them, with the views we have gained from further action in different contexts."
- Working Class Communism
A Review of the Literature
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
- The working class, trade unions and the left: the contours of resistance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Vernell talks about the attacks of the British government to stabilise capitalism, as well as the response of the working class.
- Workmates: direct action workplace organising on the London Underground
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
An online pamphlet detailing resistance in the late 1990s by London Underground employees to outsourcing via a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) scheme. Workers organized outside the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) to form a new collective, dubbed the Workmates.
- Year of the Strike
A Short Story
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A short story about a boy's money-making scheme during the year his father and other workers go on strike at the town glass factory.
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