General strikes

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Argentina's primary trade union federation held another nationwide general strike on May 9, the second called since far-right president Javier Milei took office in December and began pursuing sweeping austerity and deregulation, reports Jessica Corbett.

Protest in Greece

Demonstrators took to the streets聽across Greece to protest the government's handling of last month's Tempi railway disaster, reports Brett Wilkins.

Ontario strike 2022

Ontario鈥檚 Conservative government has officially repealed its anti-worker, anti-union legislation, reports Jeff Shantz.听

Ecuador national strike

Defying the state of emergency, enduring brutal police and military repression, hundreds of thousands of Ecuadorians continue to remain on the streets against neoliberalism, reports Tanya Wadhwa.

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, which has 1.1 million members, called a one-day general strike on October 20, reports G Dunkel.

Guatemalans have been mobilising across the country since July 29 against government corruption scandals and the mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, reports People's Dispatch.

Responding to escalating protests in Myanmar/Burma against the military coup, left groups from the Asia-Pacific region have issued a joint statement, reports Peter Boyle.

To increase the 鈥渆ase of business鈥, India's government has committed to liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation,聽effectively throwing Indian workers and farmers under a bus.

Despite police repression and the COVID-19 pandemic, workers, farmers and their allies participated in a nationwide strike聽against recent neoliberal reforms pushed through by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. People's Dispatch reports.

The popular revolt in Chile is rocking neoliberalism's laboratory and exposing the violence of the system, writes Pablo Leighton, in the first of a two-part series.

The leader of the mass protest movement that brought down Armenia鈥檚 right-wing government has been elected by parliament as the new prime minister. Hovhannes Gevorkian looks at how this happened 鈥 and what the near future might hold.

France鈥檚 Council of Ministers approved five ordinances on September 22 that undermine union power and employment rights within France鈥檚 Labour Code, which came into effect the next day.

The government imposed these changes by using undemocratic measures in France鈥檚 constitution, which allows it to push new measures into law without passing legislation through parliament.

In the face of this, the movement against the changes continues to build.听