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Mass strikes

Bureaucratic mass strikes: a rejoinder

Posted on 5th October 2015 by Camilla

Mark O’Brien’s article in 2014, “The problem of the one-day strike”,1 was an attempt to understand “the dominance of very short (usually one-day) national, public sector strikes that have typified industrial action in the UK for at least a decade”.2… Continue Reading →

Feedback Mass strikes, Strikes

Bureaucratic mass strikes: A response to Mark O’Brien

Posted on 12th April 2015 by ISJ

The mass strike of 30 November 2011 (N30) was the broadest and biggest ever British public sector strike and involved the largest number of women workers in any British strike. It has been discussed several times in this journal, with… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Mass strikes

The mass strike in the First World War

Posted on 5th January 2015 by ISJ

In Kiev a strike began in the railway workshops…the immediate cause was miserable conditions of labour and wage demands were presented… During the night two delegates of the railwaymen were arrested. The strikers immediately demanded their release…they decided not to… Continue Reading →

Analysis First World War, Mass strikes

The rebirth of our power? After the 30 November mass strike

Posted on 9th January 2012 by ISJ

The mass strike of 30 November 2011 has opened a new chapter in British working class history. Around 2.5 million people joined what was the biggest strike in Britain since 1926.1 In every town and city large parts of the… Continue Reading →

Analysis Mass strikes, Trade unions

A new workers’ movement: the strike wave of 2007

Posted on 31st March 2008 by ISJ

The beginning of the 1990s saw Hosni Mubarak start to implement World Bank and IMF policies, including a “structural adjustment programme”, privatisation and attacks on workers’ rights.1 The old centres of the working class, such as Mahalla, Kafr al-Dawwar and… Continue Reading →

Analysis Egypt, Mass strikes, Strikes

Inside Egypt’s mass strikes

Posted on 31st March 2008 by ISJ

Egyptian workers’ dramatic revival of strikes is a direct challenge to those who argue that the working class in the Middle East—or in the Third World more generally—has been economically and politically marginalised. The strikes have often been very successful… Continue Reading →

Analysis Egypt, Mass strikes, Strikes
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