theleftberlina day ago2 minVideo - Ten Years after the Arab Spring New Insurgencies in the Arab World This is the video of the online meeting that we held on 22nd June, 2020 Speakers: • Maya Zebdawi - Pal...
theleftberlin5 days ago8 minCartographies of Baltic labour resistanceby Andreas Bieler and Jokubas Salyg The conjuncture between the thirtieth anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegra...
theleftberlinJun 153 minLabor In the Black Lives Matter Movementby Sean Cummings Sean Cummings looks at the role of organized labor in the ongoing anti-racist rebellion, arguing that rank and file orga...
theleftberlinJun 313 minKilling twelve chickens a minuteSome thoughts on organising in Irish meat plants by Nora Labo In recent weeks, the work conditions in food production industries in Weste...
theleftberlinMay 319 minA perfect stormUK universities, COVID-19 and the edtech peril by Mariya P Ivancheva The current crisis and its proposed solution via online emergency te...
theleftberlinMay 2715 minTech Worker Organizing in ChinaA New Model for Workers Battling a Repressive State by Kevin Lin In March 2019, an online mobilization by Chinese tech workers spurred a ...
theleftberlinMay 239 minDomestic Workers and COVID-19 in BrazilStaging resistance, presenting scenarios and challenges by Maria Izabel Monteiro Lourenço and Mary Garcia Castro The first reported case ...
theleftberlinMay 224 minEnglish schools reopening - teachers get militantby Dave Gilchrist What was always a creaky consensus around the measures taken by the UK government against the Coronavirus pandemic has ...
theleftberlinMay 2014 minUnions Fight to Protect All Essential Workersby Jeremy Brecher This is the fourth in a series of commentaries on Workers vs. Coronavirus. The first, “Strike for Your Life,” describes...
theleftberlinMay 125 minDon’t Go Back Until it’s safe And it’s not safe nowby Jonathan Neale In his speech Sunday night Boris Johnson said that workers in manufacturing and construction should go back to work. Th...
theleftberlinMay 51 minVideo - 1. May speech, Antigoni NtontiThis is the speech of our member Antigoni Ntonti at one of the demonstrations organised by Die LINKE Neukölln on 1 May. Antigoni's speech...
theleftberlinMay 34 minWe need our unions to protect usby Jonathan Neale I have been a union member all my life, and a shop steward in several jobs. But I’m worried now. Some of our union lead...
theleftberlinApr 3012 minIn Coronavirus Fight, Workers Are Forging an Emergency Green New Dealby Jeremy Brecher This is the first of a series of commentaries on the Green New Deal. It argues that in the face of government and emplo...
Tom WApr 302 minWhat's happening in Berlin on May 1, 2020?The big trade union march is cancelled, but dozens of small protests are going ahead.
theleftberlinApr 2810 minStrike for Your Life!by Jeremy Brecher In the United States, there have been more than a dozen strikes in the past two weeks by workers striking to protect th...
theleftberlinApr 233 minCOVID Class Struggle: One Month of US Workplace ActionsThey say the working class can’t run society. But look at the mess governments around the world have made of the coronavirus pandemic. Ev...
theleftberlinApr 210 min"There is a battle raging with the bosses!"Corona Crisis in Italy Interview with Italian trade unionist Eliana Como Workers in Italy are resisting and fighting against the inadequa...
theleftberlinMar 212 minPetition: 90% pay for furloughed workersEmployees on reduced hours only get 60% of their normal wages under a government scheme.
theleftberlinMar 167 minStriking in the time of coronavirusResults and prospects of the universities dispute by Vladimir Unkovski-Korica After 22 days of industrial action this year, the Universit...
theleftberlinJan 246 minWhere now for the French strike movement ?Seventh National day of action: Where now for the French strike movement? by John Mullen in Paris, 24 January 2020 After more than a mont...