Books and films

Bel Karper and Adkotürk Workers' Strike Diar

They entered into a struggle shoulder to shoulder with their women and men. They waved the flag of Tekgıda-İş Union in Çorlu and Çerkezköy, the most important worker basins of Turkey.

Strike 1910 / Grev 1910

The film, which tells the fictional story of a real-life resistance of female silk workers in Bursa against poor working conditions in the Ottoman Empire in 1910, and which has become a part of the whole world, was shot in Turkey and Spain. Kaynak: "Grev" filmi Arabahmet Kültürevi’nde gösterilecek

Haymarket: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle

Story of the famous 1886-87 Haymarket Affair in Chicago.

Women of Steel

Wollongong, 1980: Denied jobs at the steelworks - the city's main employer - working class / migrant women refused to accept discrimination. They began a campaign for the right to work that lasted for fourteen years.

1968: a Greve de Contagem / 1968: The Counting Strike

In 2018, fifty years had passed since the first workers' strike during the military dictatorship (1964-1985). Through testimonies from historians, researchers, and workers who participated in this historic strike in the Industrial City of Contagem, in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, the documentary reconstructs this episode, which continued…

The Syndicate Movement In Morocco

The Employees

The Employees is a novel by Danish writer Olga Ravn published October 1, 2020. The novel has since been translated into English by Martin Aitken.

El año del descubrimiento / The Year of Discovery

In 1992, two major events took place in Spain: the Barcelona Olympic Games and the Universal Exposition in Seville, linked to the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Discovery of America. Ten years after the rise to power of Felipe González’s PSOE, Spain presented itself to the international community as an energetic, modern, and civilized…

9to5: The Story of a Movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9to5:_The_Story_of_a_Movement

Tell The Bosses We're Coming: A New Action Plan for Workers in the 21

How labor union organizing can help leverage today's movements, and why workers need unions more than ever before.

Stand!

An immigrant Romeo and Juliet in 1919 battle for love and a better future during a time of social upheaval

Dreams and Dust: Why the Labour Movement Must Be as Global as Globalisation / Drømme og støv

I hope that with this book I have shown that transferring resources to global self-defence is absolutely necessary, and that global trade-union federations such as UNI and local unions such as BJMF have already gained valuable practical experience that we can draw on in the work ahead. The global labour movement can create the solutions we need only if…

Grêvons / Let’s strike

Action, determination, resistance, debate, moments of humor and solidarity, the film skilfully retraces a good part of the strike the postal workers’ strike in 92

“Little invisible hands” / «Les Petites mains invisibles»

This film reports on strike by cleaning workers employed by Onet, a victorious strike carried out in 2017 in stations in the North of Île-de-France.

The rebels: images and words from May 1968 /

Workers, students and young people opposed, in May 1968, morality and the power in place. The faculties and factories are busy.

Air to Breathe: 40 Years of Opposition at Opel in Bochum / Luft zum Atmen: 40 Jahre Opposition bei Opel in Bochum

In 1972, several workers and revolutionaries at Opel Bochum founded the Group of Oppositional Trade Unionists (GoG). The GoG existed for more than forty years and strengthened the spirit of resistance among the Bochum workforce through its radical workplace organizing.

Casas viejas 1933 / Old houses 1933

On January 8, 1933, a general strike was declared throughout Spain. The strike was quickly suppressed, except in Casas Viejas, a small village in Cádiz.

Resistance, patience, struggle / Direnç, Sabır, Mücadele!

The film present the story of resistance, patience and struggle to our audience as solidarity in this process where trade union rights are under intense attack. In our documentary about the trade union struggle given by workers from 5 different cities and different sectors, the determination and transformation of the insurgents are reflected.

Yellow helmut / Sarı Baret

Miners… Miners with the yellow chair, lighthouse, digging, shovel and of course labor… We heard their name with disasters and business murders. We witnessed their struggles to the tooth.

American Factory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Factory

Betrayal: When the Government Took Over the Teamsters Union

Examines the consequences of the 1989-2020 federal government takeover of the Teamsters.

Mine Wars

The Irisman

In a nursing home, elderly Irish-American World War II veteran Frank Sheeran recounts his time as a hitman for the Italian-American Mafia. In 1950s Philadelphia, Sheeran works as a union delivery truck driver, where he starts selling some of the meat shipments to a local Philadelphia Italian-American gangster known as "Skinny Razor", a member of the…

The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs

El Caso Fischer-Bufano

The film is based on the kidnapping and murder, by a death squad of the Triple A (Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance), of young labor activists Jorge Fischer and Miguel Angel Bufano, aged 25 and 23 respectively, in December 1974. Forty Bullets, by narrating the life stories of these socialist activists (who were also close friends), aims to help us…

Chão de Fábrica - A História do Novo Sindicalismo / Factory Floor

Factory Floor is a film based on a TV series about the history of the new Brazilian trade unionism. It begins with the major strikes of 1970/1980, which took place in the ABC region of São Paulo.

Solidarność 1980 - 1989. Polska droga do wolności

The 1980s were the most important decade in the history of modern Poland. It was then that a great uprising of Poles took place and a movement emerged which, after many years of difficult experiences, led to the end of the Polish People’s Republic, a communist semi-colony of the Soviet Union, and to the rebirth of a free Republic of Poland.

At War / En Guerre

A gripping drama by Stéphane Brizé, showcased at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in May, tells the story of French factory workers at "Perrin Industrie." For five years, they agreed to salary cuts to keep the company afloat. However, the German headquarters, dissatisfied with the factory’s insufficient profitability, decided to shut it down and leave…

Can the Working Class Change the World?

In his timely and innovative book, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can, indeed, change the world.

Nae Pasaran

Story of the Scottish machinists who refused to repair plan engines for Pinochet’s Chilean dictatorship in the 1970s & the impact of their solidarity.