By Lupax 1st of May, 1962. The dictator Franco organizes a pompous and festive spectacle for workers from all over the State for Labor day. In this way, the Regime presents itself as a machine for peace between social classes. But behind this apparent harmony, the miners in Asturias have been striking for already a month. This social conflict became one of the biggest challenges that the dictator had to con ...

The strike of the workers at Greek Steelworks was declared illegal yesterday by court order. The steelworkers have been striking for 220 days, refusing to accept wage reductions, "flexible" work hours and demanding that their fired coworkers be hired back. The strike has won the support of trade unions and organizations from all over the world. It is one of the many struggles at the workplace that are curre ...

By Roger Annis, May 18, 2012 MONTREAL—The strike of post-secondary students in Quebec has taken a dramatic turn with the provincial government rushing adoption of a special law on May 18 to suspend the school year at strike-bound institutions until August and outlaw protest activity deemed disruptive of institutions not participating in the strike. Details of Bill 78 were unveiled the day before and debated ...

Austerity measures look set to become far more dramatic on Friday, when prime minister Mariano Rajoy delivers one of harshest budgets ever seen in Europe. With near-empty railway stations, shut factories, mass marches and occasional outbreaks of violence during a general strike on Thursday, Spaniards showed the first signs of rebellion against the reformist, austerity-preaching conservative government they ...

By bringing together the struggles of students and workers, a historic strike in the Netherlands may contain crucial lessons for the Occupy movement. The occupation we witnessed at the Vrije Universiteit (VU University) in Amsterdam this past week was no ordinary university occupation. But that’s what you get when you combine the energy behind the longest-running sector-wide strike in Dutch history since 19 ...

Solidarity Call Out   The last two months the struggle of cleaners has been in the centrepiece of social movements in the Netherlands. The cleaners are among the first who are affected by the economic crisis in the Netherlands. After transportation workers, post workers and employees in subsidised jobs, the cleaners are facing wage cuts. The budget cuts in the cleaning expenses by companies such as Phi ...

The beginning of the tragedy Only in the first three weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, on September 15th 2008, almost 2.5 millions Americans lost their houses, being unable to repay off their mortgages. From October, 2007 to the first quarter of 2009, the international stock market losses had overcome those of 1929. More than 42 trillion dollars were lost, amount that, at that time, corresponded ...

The past 2,5 years the Greek population is witnessing the harshest austerity measures since the introduction of the Euro. Greece became the ‘black sheep’-EU-member state and had to be punished hard. In 2010, the first austerity package was imposed by the Greek government under the supervision of the Troika (the IMF, the EU and the ECB). As a result, in November 2011, unemployment reached 18% and 40% among t ...

Furious cleaners occupy the area of negotiations after a ridiculous employers’ proposal – International actions in 10 cities. Hundreds cleaners are on strike for 30 days now. They ask for self-evident things as to be paid while they are sick and to have a normal work-pressure. They also ask a small pay rise. After 4 months of discussions, 7 rounds of negotiations, hundreds of small actions, 6 big demos of r ...

BRUSSELS — Belgium was paralyzed by a national strike Monday as unions, angry over austerity measures, timed the protest to coincide with a one-day meeting of European Union leaders here in the capital. The rail network was shut down and flights were severely disrupted, with the airport at Charleroi, a hub for the low-cost carrier Ryanair, closed by the first general strike in Belgium since 1993. Tram, bus ...