Posts tagged: trade-unionism

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  From the Front Lines of the Largest Academic Strike in US History: Graduate Students Across the UC System Go On Strike

  For two weeks, graduate student workers from across the University of California have been leading the largest academic workers' strike in US history. Striking worker Misha Lerner details the history of the strike and workers' demands in this article.

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  ‘The FLN’s objective on 17 October was to prove that the masses were behind it’

  Sixty years ago this month, French police massacred an estimated two hundred Algerians in Paris during a peaceful demonstration in support of an independent Algeria. At the FLN's request, Renault factory workers and leftist activists Clara and Henri Benoits attended the demonstration as observers. They recount what they witnessed in this fascinating interview.