书籍与电影

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.

Strajk. Historia buntów pracowniczych

More than 150 years have passed since the first strike, which took place in 1872 at the Cegielski factory—a symbol and an exceptional site not only on the map of Greater Poland but of the entire country. The Poznań enterprise, which has operated continuously for 178 years, serves for Jarosław Urbański as a point of reference and inspiration for…

Takový socialismus nechceme!: Kultura protestu průmyslového dělnictva v českých zemích v letech 1945-1968

Did strikes exist during the period of state socialism in Czechoslovakia? Did industrial workers agree with government policy at the time?

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.

Tapis rouge et lutte des classes / Une autre histoire du Festival de Cannes

The Cannes Film Festival, the red carpet, its parade of stars and the crackle of camera flashes… Who could imagine that behind the glittering façade of the most prestigious event in the world of cinema lies a completely different story? To understand it, we must go back to the very origins of the Festival.

To work / Au boulot

They are delivery drivers, cooks, care assistants or farmers, French and immigrants, men and women, live and work in the four corners of the country but are all on minimum wage or in the process of reintegration. Despite the harshness of their living conditions and even their health, they not only seek to get by but show solidarity which quickly makes…

Klassensolidarität, Autonomie, Selbstorganisation: Erfahrungen und Reflexionen von unten

Striking delivery drivers in Brazil, organized logistics workers in Italy, grassroots groups in Switzerland and Germany, covert protests by Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan, an occupation in Greece resisting touristification, burning construction sites, and collective expropriations in the United States: across the world and in very different ways,…

When women stopped Iceland

Discover the fascinating story behind the first and legendary Icelandic women's strike of 1975, in which, for an entire day, they refused to work, take care of their children or cook. When 90% of Icelandic women walked off their jobs and walked out of their homes one autumn morning in 1975, refusing to work, cook, or look after children, they brought…

हड़ताल कल होगी The Strike Will Be Tomorrow

Mauritian writer Abhimanyu Anat has established a distinct place for himself in modern Hindi fiction, and this novel adds a new dimension to his literary personality. The protagonist of the novel, Amit, is sensitive and contemplative, a leader of workers, deeply disturbed by the internal and external divide between the rich and the poor.

শতবর্ষে চা-শ্রমিক আন্দোলন ডেডলাইন ২০ মে ১৯২১ A Century of the Tea Workers’ Movement: Deadline 20 May 1921

Shreyasi Gangopadhyay. May 20, 1921 marks the tea workers’ movement in Bangladesh, and the legacy of the struggle of plantation workers and coolies remains just as significant even after a century.

This Work Is Not Life: Class Struggle in the 21st Century — The GKN Case / Questo lavoro non è vita. La lotta di classe nel XXI secolo. Il caso GKN

On 9 July 2021, the 422 employees of GKN in Campi Bisenzio, Florence, a factory producing drive shafts for the automotive industry, received an email announcing collective-dismissal proceedings due to the closure of the business. The workers refused to remain resigned: they immediately went to the factory gates, guarded by private security, and managed…

Workers and the State. Workers’ Struggles and Reform of the Capitalist State from the October Revolution to the New Deal / Operai e Stato. Lotte operaie e riforma dello Stato capitalistico tra Rivoluzione d’Ottobre e New Deal

First published in the early 1970s, Operai e Stato is a classic of radical and workerist thought that shaped a generation of political activists. Its essays examine class composition, political organization, Keynes and the New Deal, and workers’ struggles in Britain and the United States, connecting European and American labor history.

Una alianza que transformó el país / An alliance that transformed the country: The unions and early Peronism

An eruption, a magical and mysterious moment, the emergence of an undercurrent that swept everything away. A leader who interpreted and shaped history to his liking.

عمّال على طريق يناير: قراءة لثلاث معارك عمّالية مع نشرات الحركة Workers on the Road to January: A Reading of Three Labour Struggles with the Movement’s Bulletins

In his book Workers on the Road to January: A Reading of Three Labour Struggles with the Movement’s Bulletins, published by Dar Al-Maraya, Hisham Fouad offers a panoramic view from inside the workers’ operational room. The book is not a dry academic study; rather, it is a “living documentation” and “close-up observations of three pivotal labour struggles…

MA – Cry of Silence

Mi-Thet, a garment factory worker in Yangon, faces wage issues. Nyein-Nyein leads female workers to organize a strike.

Judul Buku: Berpencar, Bergerak!: Pergolakan Perlawanan Harian Buruh di Delapan Sektor Industri

In the book “Berpencar, Bergerak”, Sudiyanti recounts her experience of resistance in an electronics factory that produces earphones. In great detail, Sudiyanti explains how she, together with several comrades who were members of a factory-level labor union, transformed workers’ complaints about poor working conditions into concrete demands directed at…

The Labor Movement and Its Role in Society and Politics / ขบวนการแรงงานกับบทบาททางสังคมและการเมือง

This book is a collection of academic articles based on the author’s research work, reflecting her role as a key scholar closely connected to the Thai labor movement over the past three decades. The volume brings together three major articles: The History of the Thai Labor Movement Toward a Decade of Fragmentation (1977–1987) Trade Unions as Social…

Por qué el obrero vota a la derecha: La deriva suicida de la izquierda / Why the worker votes for the right: The suicidal drift of the left

What's happening to the left today? Why does it seem more concerned with issues like environmentalism (a false environmentalism) or a feminism that is anything but equality, instead of with the problems faced by an increasingly suffocated working class?

The Miraculous Transformation of the Working Class Into Foreigners 2024

Samir uses private family photos, animations, music clips and unseen archive material to tell the story of migration from Switzerlands southern neighbours in an entertaining way, from the post-war period to the present day. While the SP and trade unions led the Swiss workers' culture until the 1950s, these institutions became less and less important and…

3 Women 1 Strike / 3 kadın 1 Grev

The film '3 Women 1 Strike' tells the fictional story of women around the strike of immigrant women workers from all over the world at the Pierburg factory in 1973. The story of friendships that developed around the workers' strike...

Cycle / Döngü

For years Sevim has worked as a housekeeper for Ayten, playing a key role in managing the household while financially supporting her daughter and son-in-law. When Ayten’s Kosovan helper, Lena, suffers an accident, it sparks a legal dispute between the parties.

Strike: An Uncivil War

The Miners' Strike of 1984/85 was the most divisive, violent industrial dispute Britain has ever witnessed. With personal testimony, formerly hidden government documents and unseen archive, STRIKE tells the story of the Battle of Orgreave

How crane operator is fighting for her rights

The immediate appearance of new residential complexes that emerge from the maze of green fences like mushrooms after the rain may no longer attract the attention of city dwellers. Yet, the people who build housing and create profits for developers through their work are even less visible.

The Dells

The Dells observes the clash between fantasy and reality faced by international student workers newly arrived in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin – the self-described “Waterpark Capital of the World.” The film follows the rhythms of an ensemble cast of “J-1s” as they work, party, and cruise around town in taxis. Students weather the myriad headaches of making…

COVID Sourdough

A short subject documentary about the union organizers at Tartine Bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area who successfully won a tight NLRB election despite a brutal anti union boss fight that began just weeks before the worldwide closures of March 2020 dude to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID Sourdough

A short subject documentary about the union organizers at Tartine Bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area who successfully won a tight NLRB election despite a brutal anti union boss fight that began just weeks before the worldwide closures of March 2020 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.