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Beyond the Labour Machine: Aotearoa, the Alliance, and the Question of Working Class Independence

Kyle Barrett — 2026-09-14T09:15:09Z

On October 23, 2025, more than 100,000 workers walked off the job in Aotearoa (the Māori-language name for New Zealand): 60,000 teachers, 30,000 nurses, 5,000 doctors, 20,000 allied health workers, firefighters, and public servants. It was the largest day of industrial action since the 1979 general strike—a forty-six year interregnum finally broken. 56 percent of New Zealanders told pollsters they backed the strikers.
By the end of the year, that energy had been buried. The Post Primary (…)

- IVP620 - September 2026 / New parties of the left, New Zealand, Trade unions/workplace organizing

“Fighting sexist and sexual violence means guaranteeing the place of women in the CGT”

Fanny Gallot, Raphaëlle Manière — 2026-09-11T19:34:44Z

Raphaëlle Manière is a railway worker in the Jura, where she works in the sales sector. She has a part-time trade union job. Since 2016, she has been in charge of the monitoring unit against sexist and sexual violence of the French trade union confederation, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) . Former general secretary of the CGT Jura departmental union from 2010 to 2017, she also sat on the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) between 2015 and 2021, where she was (…)

- Feminism / France, Women, Trade unions/workplace organizing, Features

“Against Trump we have to defend our neighbors, defend our democratic rights and our labor rights”

Antoine Larrache, Janette Zahia Corcelius, Penelope Duggan, Raphaël Alberto — 2026-07-16T09:43:03Z

Janette Zahia Corcelius, a trade-union organizer from Minneapolis, visited Paris on two occasions this spring. First, in April, as member of a delegation speaking in a tour organized by on the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) campaign. Then in early June to speak at an anti-fascist festival. On her first visit she spoke to Raphaël Alberto for the l'Anticapitaliste you tube channel (published in French « Face à Trump, nous devons protéger nos voisinEs, défendre nos droits démocratiques et (…)

- Features / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

UAW: Mixed Reform Results

Dianne Feeley — 2026-07-13T10:08:08Z

THIS SPRING DELEGATES were elected to the United Auto Workers Constitutional Convention that will be held in mid-June. As the UAW website notes, the convention will “make critical decisions, including constitutional amendments and resolutions on workplace and social issues.”

- Features / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

Four Thousand Worker Activists at Labor Notes Conference Plan to Fight

Dan La Botz — 2026-06-16T11:04:01Z

More than 4,000 worker activists gathered in Chicago from June 12-14 for the Labor Notes Conference where they discussed the challenges facing unions and workers, shared experiences, and planned for the fights of the future. They came from across the United States and some from countries around the world. The conference began with and was permeated with a commitment to strengthen unions, to stand up to the corporations and the government, and to improve the lives of working people.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

A soldiers' union is formed in Ukraine

Collective — 2026-06-14T18:29:12Z

The Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) has announced the creation of a new organisation: the All-Ukrainian Union of Combatants, Military Personnel and Veterans.

- News from around the world / Ukraine, Trade unions/workplace organizing

The “chalk revolution”: when a society rises up to defend public education

Aphrodite Mara — 2026-06-12T15:52:09Z

The month of June 2026 could, in retrospect, appear to be a decisive moment in Belgium's contemporary social and political history. What is at stake there goes far beyond a simple sectoral reform. It is a profound confrontation between two irreconcilable visions of the school.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / Belgium, Trade unions/workplace organizing, Public services

The general strike in Portugal scored points, but the future is uncertain

Antonio Louçã — 2026-06-11T22:15:59Z

The general strike of June 3rd paralysed a significant number of businesses and services. There is a widespread awareness among the working class that the package of dozens of labour laws represents a mortal threat to their future.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / Portugal, Trade unions/workplace organizing

The 1926 General Strike in Britain

Harry Wicks, Jim Higgins — 2026-06-08T11:26:25Z

This 1976 pamphlet first appeared as a series of articles in the Workers News, a fortnightly journal of socialist news and analysis.

- Features / Britain, Trade unions/workplace organizing, Historical events and figures

General Strike Rejects Labour Reform Package Once Again

Adriano Campos — 2026-06-06T11:23:00Z

“It's turning out to be a major general strike; the data we have from last night shows workers are determined to treat today as a major day of struggle,” said the CGTP's General Secretary in the morning outside one of the striking schools in Lisbon.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / Portugal, Trade unions/workplace organizing