Mexico: the insurrection of Ixmiquilpan
Submitted by Ruptura Colecti... on Mar 10 2017 10:54
The stores remain closed until the workers have better salaries and that, in agreement with the managers and bosses, products of the campesinos of the municipality are bought and distributed in the stores. The banks only open every three days so that the people can collect or send money. The police aren’t welcome.
2008: Disruption of Oil Land Auction
Submitted by Reddebrek on Feb 27 2017 19:14
An account of an environmental activists disruption of an auction for oil extraction rights in 2008.
1959: Fiji Oil Workers Strike
Submitted by Reddebrek on Feb 2 2017 23:15
The strike of 1959 was the first time a multi ethnic workforce struck together, and the response was martial law from the government and betrayal by tribal elders.
1984: Ogharefe Women Blockade Pan Ocean Oil
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 26 2017 19:58
In their struggle with the global oil giant Pan Ocean Oil the women of the Ogharefe used blockades and a traditional African custom to force the company to give in to their demands.
Chronicle of days of looting & revolt. Or, what comes next?
Submitted by Guerre de Classe on Jan 19 2017 17:34
translated from the Spanish. Originally published on Jan. 8th, 2017 in Antagonismo – Por el communismo y anarquia: https://antagonismorp.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/cronica-de-estos-dias-de-saqueo-y-revuelta-o-que-sigue/
1983-85: Bolivian Protests and Strikes Defeat President
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 18 2017 19:36
In 1983 Bolivia elected a left wing president supported by a coalition of leftist parties and union federations. However the President priorities the paying of foreign debt and brought in neoliberal reforms and lowered wages and living standards for many Bolivians. As a result he alienated his allies and thousands of industrial workers and peasants rebelled with a series of protests and strikes.
The Iranian coup, 1953
Submitted by Anonymous on Dec 14 2016 18:50
A detailed account of the overthrow of nationalist Iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh by the CIA at the behest of the British and American governments, written by Stephen Kinzer.
Energy Supply Chain Inquiry, San Francisco Zinn Bookfair, 4 Dec 2016
Submitted by Supply Chain Re... on Dec 1 2016 03:58
"Energy Supply Chains: Working Class Solidarity & Stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline" presentation at 3rd Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair on Sunday December 4th, 2016 11:00 a.m. – 12 noon at San Francisco City College Mission Campus. Attendees will be taken through a "thought experiment" that imagines solidarity spreading throughout the entire energy supply chain in solidarity with the protests to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.
A general strike starting from refinery workers at the caribbean island of Curacao - awaiting new masters from China
Submitted by Fredo Corvo on Oct 5 2016 08:36
The strike of a week of refinery workers, followed by the general strike on September 15 in Curacao, has aroused much interest in the Caribbean. In particular, the fact that a mysterious third party showed up paying over 1.8 million ANG [Antillean Guilder (ANG). Per 23-9-2016 1 ANG = 0,50 EUR or US$ 0,57] in back wages, has caused astonishment. F.e. Surinam media reported extensively on the workers' actions. One remembers the Curacao strikes and riots of May 30 1969, that were repressed by Dutch marines, and that led to changes in policy.
Bloodshed in Bayonne
Submitted by Tom McDonough on Oct 4 2016 17:35
October 8, 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the strike at Standard Oil’s Bayonne, N.J., refineries. In the course of the ten-day strike, 4 people were killed and 86 wounded. The free press demonstrated collusion between the corporation and the city authorities in what John Reed described as a police riot. Yet, not a word of this is mentioned in the Rockefeller biographies.
