书籍与电影

Lotta senza classe (A Classless Struggle)

Three different ways of being metalworkers. Three different ways of dealing with the crisis, three different life prospects.

Occupy, Resist, Produce – RiMaflow / Occupare, Resistere, Produrre – RiMaflow

The film follows the workers of RiMaflow, a former Maflow car-parts plant in Trezzano sul Naviglio near Milan. After the factory was closed following a fraudulent bankruptcy, former workers occupied the plant and began to reinvent it as a self-managed project.

Senzachiederepermesso

The story of the worker Pietro Perotti, employed at Fiat Mirafiori from 1969 to 1985, who took part in the workers' struggles by dealing with communication within the factory, making stickers, wall newspapers, writings and drawings in the bathrooms, papier-mâché and foam rubber puppets, turning the marches into "street theater". With his camera Perotti…

Miners shot down

In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days into the strike, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more.

Cart / Kateu

Sun Hi, a mother of two children, works as a cashier in a large supermarket, believing that hard work will secure a good future for her children. However, the company suddenly announces the dismissal of her and other temporary workers.

ReMine, the latest workers' movement

“There’s a fire burning in Asturias that’s warming all of Spain, because the entire mining region has risen up there.” More than a fire, as Sánchez Ferlosio said, it was a blazing inferno that erupted in the 2012 Asturian miners’ strike: the last workers’ movement, a display of epic courage and kamikaze integrity. The road blockades, the miners’…

Still the Enemy Within

Still the Enemy Within is a unique insight into one of history's most dramatic events: the 1984-85 British Miners' Strike. No experts.

The Pride

Based on a true story, it depicts a group of lesbian and gay activists who seek contact with Welsh miners during the Miners' Strike of 1984-1985 in Britain. They are ready to help, though this area is a harsh backwater where they'd be better off not showing up.

Labor's Turning Point: 1934 Minneapolis Truckers Strike

Full-length documentary on the 1934 Truckers Strikes that transformed Minneapolis into a union town and prompted passage of the labor law that made collective bargaining government policy.

Mother Jones and Her Children

Pencils Down: The 100 Days Of The Writers Guild Strike

The story of the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007-08 that pitted Hollywood's writers against the major studios.

The Hand That Feeds

Undocumented sandwich workers in NYC struggle against abusive conditions.

Cesar Chavez

In the mid-1960s in California, two groups of Latino organizers formed a union for farm laborers (braceros) from the countless Mexican migrants. One of the groups was led by the legendary César Chávez.

Memory for Repeat Offenders" Workers' Struggle and Militancy in the 1970s

The film offers an original perspective on the 1970s, from its thematic choices to its formal production, which renews previous audiovisual productions on the subject. It recovers a wealth of previously unseen archival footage, featuring the voices of disappeared workers, protagonists of emblematic struggles in the 1970s.

Zhanaozen Diary

The movie depicts the events that followed the bloody suppression of the strike. In 2011, I was an observer for the Kazakhstan Bureau for Human Rights and lived with the oil workers in the central square of Zhanaozen, and later attended the trials," says Galym Ageleuov.

Walesa: Man of Hope

The biopic film addresses the development of the trade union movement in Poland during the years 1970-1989, focusing on the participation of electrician Lech Wałęsa in demonstrations and strikes, leading to the creation of the trade union Solidarity and his speech in the U.S. Congress.

For Marks

The movie portrays events from a time of crisis, where the factory owners solved their problems at the expense of workers who have become impoverished in recent years. The core conflict in the film is between the newly emerged capitalists and Soviet-era working class.The factory workers, realizing that their salaries are being reduced, decide to form an…

Zhanaozen: an unknown tragedy

The Home and the Cavity / Malmberget

Life in Malmberget, a mining community in Sweden’s Gällivare municipality, is marked by the prospect of its disappearance. For 250 years, the town’s fate has been tied to mining.

The Mill

A dramatic narrative dedicated to the harsh, joyless lives of young girls working at the Quarry Bank Mill textile factory in Cheshire, in northwest England, from 1833 to 1836. Formally, they are underage apprentices under the care and full provision of the factory owners, the wealthy Greg family.

Chicago Fire (Season 2, 1-6 series)

Fire Station No. 51 leads a vibrant life: constant responses to accidents and fires, confrontations with criminals, and saving people.

House of Cards: season 1

Congressman Frank Underwood is charming and terrifying, a genius villain striving to reach to the top of America's power structure.Along the way, he comes across the unions—of teachers and shipbuilders.Woe and despair befall them! An extraordinary storyline, a unique staging, and superb performances, led by Robin Wright (who portrays Claire Underwood)…

No God, No Master

The film is based on real events that took place in the United States during the 1910s and 1920s. America's wealthy elite begin receiving "gifts" in the mail—bombs.

Prejudice & Pride

Zhanaozen. By Request.

Oil workers gathered in the central square of Zhanaozen (Western Kazakhstan) for a strike that lasted seven months. On December 16, 2011, during the Independence Day celebrations.

The Strike on Benteler

Brothers on the Line

The Snows of Kilimanjaro / Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro

Michel, an experienced dock worker and activist of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), finds himself among the 20 people laid off due to staff cuts. He and his beloved wife, Marie-Claire, live happily, surrounded by the love of their family and colleagues.

80 Million

A historical drama by Waldemar Krzystek, based on real events during the 1980-1981 revolution in Poland. In December 1981, the Public Security forces were hunting down Solidarity trade unionists.

Black Thursday

The film tells the story of the workers' strikes that swept the Polish coastline in December 1970, which were brutally suppressed by the country's leadership. The focus is on the fate of the shipyard worker Brunon Drywa, who was killed during the unrest at the railway station on December 17, 1970, in Gdynia.