Category: Labour
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How Our Struggles Are Contained by Those In Power
This is a period when ongoing social action and indefinite strikes will be needed to turn back attacks and win our demands. Keep reading »
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Sharifeh Mohammadi: Iranian Labour, Civil Rights Activist, Sentenced To Death
Sharifeh Mohammadi, a labour and civil rights activist, was put on trial by the first branch of the Rasht Revolutionary Court and sentenced to death without going through any transparent … Keep reading »
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Law At Work: Class, Property, Capitalism
This essay is an excerpt from Harry Glasbeek’s new book Law At Work: The Coercion and Co-option of the Working Class, Between the Lines, 2024. For thousands of years, workers … Keep reading »
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The Next Front in Palestine Solidarity: Worker Strikes
The symbiotic relationship between universities and the military puts higher education workers in a position of significant structural power. Keep reading »
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A Generational Challenge: Taming Amazon, Renewing Labour
As the Occupy protests of 2011 exhausted themselves, a dramatic turn from protests to politics surfaced. In the US, the energy was channeled into Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign for the … Keep reading »
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Protecting the Right to Protest and Picket
In Toronto and York Region, we are witnessing an alarming rise in anti-democratic, anti-worker motions being introduced by municipal Councillors. Using various pretexts, members of council in Toronto and York … Keep reading »
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Working-Class Environmentalism and Climate Justice: The Challenge of Convergence Today
On 9 July 2021, Melrose Industries announced the closure of its GKN Driveline (ex-FIAT) factory of car axles in Campi di Bisenzio, Florence, and the layoff of its workers (more … Keep reading »
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Trade Unions Block Arms Exports to Israel
Around the world, trade unions and workers are refusing to participate in the production and transportation of arms intended for Israel. Particularly notable are the actions of port workers’ unions, … Keep reading »
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Strategy, the Movement and Power: Debating Labour and Community Organizing
Two recent books, Labor Power and Strategy and Power Concedes Nothing, speak to the urgency of our times – the sense of danger, the sense of possibility, the need to … Keep reading »
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Essential Services in Quebec and the ‘crystal ball’ by François Legault
In the present labour dispute in the public and semi-public sectors, the issue of essential services has unquestionably resurfaced in the news. There was also the famous statement by Premier … Keep reading »
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From Associational to Institutional Power: the Case of Platform Workers in the Philippines
“Grab Philippines, Respect Our Rights! Recognise Our Union and Negotiate With Us!” rang out in Angeles City during the public launch of the National Union of Food Delivery Riders (formerly … Keep reading »
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Workers For Palestine: Blockading BAE Systems in Glasgow
Palestinian solidarity activists blockaded BAE Systems factory in Glasgow’s Govan District on 7 December 2023. The blockade at the entrances to the BAE Systems site in Glasgow was organised by … Watch video »