Books and films

Every Acre, Every Factory

It is getting hot in our antechamber of barbarism, so much is clear. It's time to agree on a new political strategy.

AnyMart / チルド

Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale, this deadpan satire of late capitalism sees a convenience store become a stage for darkly funny horror. Sakai – played by Japanese star Shota Sometani (Himizu, MIFF 2012) – is an assistant manager at the Tokyo convenience store managed by his father (Masahiko Nishimura), both men deadened by the rigid…

No Name Ceuta

No Name Ceuta is a documentary about migrants trapped at Ceuta, one of the most militarised and least visible borders in southern Europe. Filmed in Ceuta in January and February 2026, it follows migrants and activists from No Name Kitchen and shows the consequences of European border-control policies: barriers to international protection, administrative…

Merhaba Ankara: Büyük Öğretmen Yürüyüşü / Hello Ankara: The Great Teachers' March

Merhaba Ankara: The Great Teachers' March follows the nine-day journey of private-sector teachers organized by Özel Sektör Öğretmenleri Sendikası as they march to Ankara to demand their rights. Filmed from within the action, it documents collective organizing, obstacles along the route, and protests near parliament against insecure work and exploitation…

Who Moves America

In an era of deepening inequality, the Teamsters stand on the brink of a historic strike. UPS is the world’s largest package delivery company, moving millions of packages across 200 countries and territories every day.

Agregados obreros / Labor Attachés

The documentary explores the figure of the “labor attaché” as a diplomatic position that emerged during Perón’s first government in Argentina. This initiative created a cultural conflict by opening spaces in Argentine politics—such as the Foreign Ministry and international relations—to workers.

"Huelga en el fin del mundo

The historic metalworkers’ strike of May 2025: ten thousand workers brought production to a halt and stood their shifts in front of burning barrels to withstand nine degrees below zero. In those ten days that shook the island, they made it clear who truly operates the levers of the most powerful electronics hub in the country — and the southernmost in…

Semana Santa del 95

In the 1980s, the Continental factory arrived in Ushuaia, driven by the Industrial Promotion Law, transforming the city with the arrival of thousands of workers. In the 1990s, economic liberalization led to its closure, leaving the workers without jobs or severance pay.

Retazos de historia obrera

The film was born from a six-song album produced by Palo Pandolfo and blends history, music, and cinema. It is an audiovisual production that traces elements of Argentina’s labor history from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century.

Power to Forge (Pouvoir oublier)

Quebec, spring 1972. The workers’ struggle is at its peak.

The Thing to Be Done

A map of Europe is marked with numbers, their values rising from south to north, east to west – these are the gross minimum wages of each nation. Director Srđan Kovačević is committed to transparency.

Die Mutigen 56 - Germany's longest strike

It was different for the employees. The workers did not want to put up with this unequal treatment anymore.

Driving Europe

More and more goods are being transported on Europe's roads, yet work conditions for truck drivers are getting worse and worse. Exploitative dependency and wage dumping.

We Only Want the Earth: The Life and Ideas of James Connolly

An iconic presence on the landscape of Irish socialism and republicanism, the name of James Connolly looms large in the trade union movement and wherever radical left-wing politics are espoused. The film tries to place Connolly’s radical ideas and many political achievements against the landscape of the contemporary world as well as documenting his more…

Het stof daalt! / The Dust Settles

Following 'Het water komt' (about Zeeland and the consequences of the North Sea Flood) and 'De aarde beeft' (about Groningen and the consequences of natural gas extraction), the history program Andere Tijden (NTR) presents a series about Limburg and the scars of the mining industry, fifty years after the closure of the last coal mine: 'Het stof vallen'.…

Aro berria / A New Era

With ecstatic sequences reminiscent of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain, this complex portrait of new-age commune life is a striking feature debut. It’s 1978, and Spanish society is struggling to find a post-dictatorship identity in the wake of Franco’s death.

Orgullo de clase

Orgullo de clase is a documentary tracing a century of workers’ struggles and union activism in the region of Castilla y León, Spain. The film highlights key episodes such as mining strikes, resistance against multinational companies, and workers’ contributions to democracy.

Segertåget / Victory Train

Anger is growing among railway workers on the local trains crossing the yellow fields of southern Sweden: the train company is planning another round of cuts. Decades of competition for lucrative public railway contracts have worsened employees’ working conditions.

Late Shift / Heldin

Floria, a dedicated nurse, navigates the relentless pace of her hospital’s understaffed surgical ward with humanity and warmth. As the day intensifies, she is pushed to the brink in a race against time.

Lucky Lu

Lucky Lu follows a New York City delivery rider whose world is turned upside down when he loses his only source of income. With his long-estranged family finally on their way from Asia, Lu is forced to navigate the unforgiving city and fight to protect the fragile life he’s spent all these years building.

Baristas vs. Billionaires

Starbucks baristas in Buffalo unite against corporate exploitation, sparking a generational uprising among working-class Millennials and Gen Z as they challenge a powerful billionaire CEO and fight for their rights.

Motown South: Organized Labor In the Battery Belt

The electric vehicle industry is booming in the American South; so much so that the region has earned the nickname the “Battery Belt”. But why are producers setting up shop in states such as Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee?

Partners: How Starbucks Baristas Started a Labor Revolution

When a group of baristas in Buffalo, New York, announced their intention to form a union, Starbucks responded with an elaborate, illegal anti-union campaign. Featuring on-the-ground footage from workers and organizers, Partners takes us to the front lines of the historic campaign.

They Called It the Butcher Shop: The Fleck Strike In Images

In 1978, in Huron Park, Ontario, the women of Fleck Manufacturing walked off of the job and into the history books. Fighting for better wages, safer working conditions, and union security, the strikers embarked on what would become a pivotal strike for both feminism and the labour movement.

Bargaining Forward: The story of the 2021 CUPE Strike in New Brunswick

This documentary showcases the unity and resilience of 22,000 public sector workers in New Brunswick as they strike against wage suppression. It explores strategic mobilization and collective bargaining efforts by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), culminating in a province-wide movement that successfully challenges austerity and sparks…

Cashiers Rise Up / Kasiyerler Ayağa

Cashiers Rise Up, a documentary by the workers’ party Bağımsızlık Yolu drawing attention to the problems faced by supermarket employees in particular and private-sector workers in general, has been released on YouTube. Emphasizing the importance of struggle on the side of labor, the documentary examines the campaign launched by Bağımsızlık Yolu after…

Sugar Island

The movie explores the life of Makenya, a pregnant young woman living in a batey community in the Dominican Republic. The film interweaves Makenya’s story with her sugarcane-worker grandfather’s struggle for labor rights and the mechanization of the sugar industry, as well as with the island’s ancestral and mystical wisdom.

11 Underground

In 1984, the hard-fought protest of 11 Spanish mercury miners made the national news as they barricaded themselves hundreds of meters below ground in a mining shaft for 11 days and 11 nights in protest of poor working conditions and pay. Thirty five years on, the mine is closed for good; the world in Almadén has changed, but the problems kept growing.

If they touch one of us: the class struggle at the heart. / S’ils touchent à l’un d’entre nous : la lutte des classes au cœur.

This documentary of just over an hour follows the intense struggle, widely publicized elsewhere, against the union repression which this year targeted Christian Porta, worker and CGT delegate at Neuhauser, an industrial bakery in the east of the France.

Nos hommes

One November morning, the mobile phones of Sarah, Frédérique, Ludivine, Lise and other women ring. A text message delivers the same news dozens of times: Prysmian-Draka, the factory where their partners manufacture fibre-optic cable, is going to close.