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Italian steel bosses do you think workers can fly!

Francesco Maresca — 2026-03-11T13:24:18Z

Another workplace death at the former Ilva steel plant in Taranto while production languishes and Minister Urso fails to act. Workers mobilise. Solidarity from Sinistra Anticapitalista

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Italy, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Deaths to order

Andreas Sartzekis — 2026-02-27T16:39:12Z

“This is not chance, these are programmed crimes.”

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Greece, Migration, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Nurses Leading the Class Struggle and Resistance to ICE

Dan La Botz — 2026-02-22T11:05:09Z

“ICE is a public health crisis because patients are afraid to seek care because they're afraid to go outside. People in the hospital should feel like they can seek care and not be in fear of persecution.”

- IVP613 - February 2026 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing, Public services

Venezuelan trade unionists speak to us

Collective — 2026-01-14T17:09:15Z

The International Trade Union Network of Solidarity and Struggles is passing on information received from trade union comrades in Venezuela. With Venezuela, as with Palestine, as with Ukraine, as with Sudan, as everywhere else in the world, nothing can replace direct contact between workers. For our social class, it is the best source of information and the best way to build common struggles.

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

Valeo Poland - a first success

NPA Auto Critique — 2026-01-10T13:10:00Z

Valeo workers in Poland have secured pay rises and commitments on working conditions. This initial success demonstrates the effectiveness of collective action and international solidarity.

- IVP612 - January 2026 / France, Poland, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Big success for general strike in Portugal

Antonio Louçã — 2025-12-29T09:56:44Z

Portugal's minority right-wing conservative government (Democratic Alliance) planned to survive thanks to the parliamentary support, alternately, of the Socialists (PS) or the far right. It succeeded in getting the general state budget for 2026 adopted thanks to the abstention of the PS and then intended to pass a set of new employment laws with the complicity of Chega (far right). However, the general strike of 11 December has plunged this project into uncertainty.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Portugal, Trade unions/workplace organizing

The general strike demonstrates that struggle can open up paths for the left

Jorge Costa — 2025-12-18T09:48:33Z

“The general strike, the first since the days of the Troika, was called by the two main trade union confederations, CGTP and UGT, which has only happened in half of the ten general strikes held since the end of the dictatorship.”

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Portugal, Trade unions/workplace organizing

After three days of strike, a vast social movement with no political alternative

Mateo Alaluf — 2025-12-17T08:56:25Z

Belgium experienced a crescendo of strikes on Monday 24 November in public transport (trains, buses, trams, metros), Tuesday 25 November in all public services (including education and hospitals) and Wednesday 26 November, with the addition of the private sector, a day long interprofessional general strike that was widely followed in Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Belgium, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Starbucks Workers Continue Strike for Union Contract

Dan La Botz — 2025-12-15T06:31:28Z

Thousands of Starbucks workers continue their fight for a union contract with strikes and rallies across the country. The latest strike began on November 13 and continues off-and-on at stores across the country. In mid-December some 3,800 Starbucks baristas were on strike at more than 180 stores in over 130 cities. The union, Starbucks Workers United claims a total 14,000 members at about 650 stores.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

1995, the year of the social movement

Hélène Adam — 2025-12-14T16:20:52Z

“Thirty years ago, the largest mass mobilization since May 68 thwarted the Juppé Plan, the public sector pension plan, and clearly stood in defence of a model of society based on solidarity and public service.”

- IVP611 - December 2025 / France, Trade unions/workplace organizing