For more than 40 years, an armed conflict has been raging in Colombia over the control of land and territories. The actors are the guerrillas, paramilitary groups and the state.
"They are called alternative projects, self-help or project groups, collectives or - all scientifically - New Social Movements." People who work in cooperatives talk about how these were founded and about their worki
Video about a worker who makes $8 (7,45 Euro) per hour at a fastfood restaurant in Philadelphia.
15 November 2007: the biggest train strike of the postwar period begins. The German union GDL (train operators) goes on strike, affecting passenger and freight transportation.
On November 14th 2012, thousands of people took to the streets of Portugal as part of a European wide general strike.
For the last two years, the laid-off workers of the Metropolis stores in Athens are conducting a hard, exhausting and relentless struggle in order to receive the wages and compensations owed to them by businessman And
As part of an India-wide police operation on 28 August, activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao were arrested and the homes of many more raided.
The striking workers organised the strike themselves. "Such social conflicts could contribute to changing public awareness. Maybe in a direction that we all dream of."
"This Emmy Award winning documentary film travels from Tennessee to Mexico’s northern border; from Silicon Valley to the Philippines. The Global Assembly Line takes viewers inside our new global economy.
Through militant strikes over the last four years, the mostly migrant workforce in the logistics sector in Italy have managed to substantially improve their working conditions.
This remarcable film describes the struggles in the petrochemical complex of Porto Marghera between 1955 and 2004 - from the point of view of some militant workers.
Furious workers squatted the bicycle factory Bike Systems in Nordhausen, Thuringia, on July 10th, 2007. The 135 men and women had almost resigned themselves to the new owner's decision to close the site at this date.
An eyewitness of the death of GLS worker Abd Elsalam, on 14 September 2016, says: "Our colleague was killed by the company. By GLS."
Autumn 2008, strike of the sugar cane cutters in Colombia. They massively organised themselves and were supported by their wives, the population and some committed labour unions.
Police video from 27 January, 2017. The video shows a negotiation between Aldo Milani, the spokesman of SI Cobas, and the representatives of Levoni and its subcontractor Alcar Uno.
28 April 2009, Job-Centre in Berlin Neukoelln. Activists offer to accompany the people who recieve social benefits to the appointments with their consultants. Everybody has the right to take another person.
Having won the London living wage, outsourced workers at the University of London are now fighting for pensions, sick pay and more holidays.
Lidl ist einer der größten Lebensmitteldiscounter in Europa. Er zahlt so niedrige Preise an die Produzenten, dass Bauern und Landarbeiterinnen kaum davon leben können.
Feature film about Gramsci in prison. As a former member of parliament for the Communist Party, Antonio Gramsci was arrested in 1926 by the Mussolini regime. He stayed in prison until his death in 1937.
In September of 2023, Amazon Workers International (AWI) organized a Caravan to visit Amazon Warehouses in Ger
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