General Strike

Escalate the movement against communalist citizenship legislation! United resistance must be organised and extended Geert Cool  LSP/PSL (ISA in Belgium) Orchestrated violence in Delhi left at least 50 dead and hundreds injured. The violence came afte...

How the German working class fended off a right-wing coup, almost seized power and was once again betrayed by the Social Democratic Party Marcus Hesse SAV (ISA in Germany) One often hears that a general strike is not possible in Germany, let alone ...

Heroic people’s resistance against bloody clampdown by regime’s militias Serge Jordan, CWI On Monday June 3 before dawn, the military regime and its thugs brutally dispersed the sit-in which had been camping outside the military headquarte...

The one day protest general strike held on 21 May was a significant step forward for the working class in Sri Lanka. Srinath Perera, United Socialist Party (USP – CWI, Sri Lanka) This extremely significant national strike - in Sri Lanka referre...

South African police massacres striking workers at Marikana - call for protest action DSM (CWI South Africa) At least 46 workers were shot dead, and many more injured, on August 16 as a massive police assault was launched to crush a strike ...

For a 48 hour general strike to bring down Rajoy government John Hird, CWI Spain Thousands of coal miners arrived in Madrid, last week, completing another march on the capital as part of the struggle to defend their jobs. They were greeted by t...

Nothing alarmed the CCP dictatorship more than the movement of the working class aroused to action by the student-led democracy protests Vincent Kolo, from the book Tiananmen 1989: Seven Weeks That Shook the World The great significance of the ...