Tag: preserved content

• August 12, 2022

  The 2012 Quebec Student General Strike

  

  Originally published at studentstrike.net (now defunct), CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Printable PDF pamphlet below Introduction In February 2012, students in Quebec launched an unlimited general strike to fight back against a 75% hike in university tuition fees. Contrary to the expectations of many, the strike movement lasted more than six months, morphing into one of the largest periods…
• August 10, 2022

  Women and Labor: Key Struggles in the MENA Region

  

  Embodying the intersection of gender and class, women trade union leaders are essential to the goals of ending gender violence and promoting women empowerment By Valentine M. Moghadam for ROAR Mag ow do women and gender equality measures advance in a context of conflict, climate change, high unemployment, low labor force participation, limited democratization and…
• August 3, 2022

  Funding the Resistance: Social Banditry for the 21st Century

  

  Originally published by ROAR Mag, site now down (hopefully temporarily) At least as early as the first century A.D., shiftas of the Horn of Africa renounced their allegiance to emperors, government and law, and took to the wild where — through their disruptions of the usual business and trade — they would manage to survive as outlaws.…