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Self-employed worker's report about the ups and downs of driving for Amazon.

Since the Spring of this year in several London hospitals about 750 cleaners, security personnel and porters have been in dispute with their employer, Serco. They are part of the lowest paid workers in the U.K.

Latest episode of Living The Dream - a podcast hosted on The Word From Struggle Street blog

What little information I've managed to dig up on what seems to have been an important struggle in post war France.

“无阶级社会之友”（德国共产主义团队）与 贾努·沙尔贝勒（一位埃及无政府工团主义的记者）的访谈录，2011年春季

In 2016 trade union membership dipped to an all time low. Analysis by TUC officials suggests that the situation is even starker – younger workers aren’t joining unions, causing a membership crisis that could come to a head within fifteen years.

President Nicolás Maduro's unpopular call to rewrite the 1999 Constitution is bringing Venezuela many steps closer to the feared civil war in the country.

Durham Teaching Assistants have remained solid in their resistance to the threats and deals done behind closed doors between the unions and the Labour Council. The fight goes on.

An account of working conditions and class relations in a small business.

In 1922, at the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, Władysław Kowalski (pseudonym Grzech) and Henryk Stein (pseudonym Domski) openly clashed with the leadership of both the Communist Workers’ Party of Poland and the Communist International. This article documents their contribution to the proceedings of the Congress to shed some more light on the Polish Communist Left. For more on the subject check the links in footnotes 2 and 3.

Progress in music is slowing down, a look at how neoliberalism and developments in music production and distribution may be to blame

这篇马克思主义女权理论的经典作品，写于1971年意大利阶级斗争的高潮中，说明妇女的无偿家务如何生产着资本主义积累过程中最昂贵的商品：劳动力（即工人每天去给老板打工的能力），并探讨妇女如何能够利用这一知识去参与阶级斗争，促进能够真正解放妇女的共产主义革命。

During the distribution of WorkersWildWest we have had short conversations with various local workers. We collated them into a short article to be published and circulated in upcoming WorkersWildWest no.6 - we hope to be able to create a feedback loop.

关于美国二战后无产阶级家庭主妇的集体反抗、女权意识初步形成的反思。马克思主义女权理论的经典作品。

In recent days, my twitter feed has contained many calls for accountability, and a smaller number of people describing those calls as ‘unreasonable’, ‘impossible’ or ‘grotesque’. We may publish a blog post about the specific events, but for now I want to talk about a case where the libcom collective was ‘held to account’ and how we responded to it.

Describtion of labour relations, state-induced attacks on 'social wage', 2017 elections and formation of a new governement in the Netherlands. From a council communist view, developed by Arbeidersstemmen (Workers' Voices).

Long read on what is happening with wages in Australia and why arguments that say increasing productivity will make us richer are wrong.

An on-the-ground account from the G20 protests in Hamburg, Germany originally posted by Black Rose Anarchist Federation. Similar to the impact of the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, we may look back at the Hamburg G20 protests as a symbol of global discontent that ruling elites were not able to ignore or dismiss. Beyond the tear gas and street fights, we raise the question: What made this display of dissent possible?

Hillary’s paranoid rage and the campaign’s infighting made a mockery of the slogan “Stronger Together”