Teaching assistants at York University in Toronto are on strike after management cut 800 TA posts. TAs are essential for students; they are the ones who actually teach the courses and do the grading rather than the professor. The management are also not doing enough to make the campus safe for women. If these attacks go ahead they will affect everyone at the university – send messages of support to CUPE3903strikecommittee@gmail.com.
Catalonia
Barcelona general strike: Cafes picketed out, roads blocked
Film length: 2:13 Just a few shots to give you a flavour of an incredible general strike in Barcelona, with the anti-capitalist left out in force throughout the city shutting down the few cafes that […]
Culture Sector
National Gallery Strike: Mark Getty hides from workers
Film length: 4:33 As workers at the National Gallery carry out their second 5 day strike against privatisation of the gallery and the victimisation of PCS rep Candy Udwin, the chairman of the board of […]
Construction/Blacklisting
Fawley oil refinery strike: Exxon Mobil send in police to harass workers
Running Time: 6 min 33 secs Extraordinary scenes this week at Fawley Oil Refinery in Hampshire, where Exxon Mobil sent in scores of police to harass and intimidate striking workers, rather than talk to them. […]