General Strike

General Strike

• Yellow Vests join unions to agitate for a general strike in France

  

  Repudiating Macron’s ‘great national debate’, Yellow Vests join hands with trade unions and the radical left to build for a general strike, reports Susan Ram

• Protest: Stories of Resistance - book review

  

  A historically rich collection of stories on episodes of resistance across British history is evocative of experiences of protest, finds Ralph Graham-Leigh

• May ‘68: France on the cusp of revolution

  

  Susan Ram looks back at the tumultuous events of May 1968, where students and workers united against the establishment, and asks what we can take from them today

• Is France heading for another May '68?

  

  From student dissent to militant strikes and a radical alternative, the ingredients are there for mass rebellion, writes John Mullen

• 'Let's stop Brazil' - workers to stage general strike in defence of their rights

  

  Brazilian workers are striking in response to 'the generalization of job insecurity' reports Orlando Hill