Bank employees and members of other trade unions gather in Mumbai, India, on 12 February, to protest the government’s anti-worker labour codes. The action is believed to be the biggest general strike in history with 300 million joining the one-day stoppage.Photo: Bhushan Koyande/Hindu Times/Alamy

Strikes that shook the world

Around the world, workers use the general strike as a strategy to win their demands and tip the balance of power in their favour.

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NI 561 - Trade Unions - May, 2026
Photo: Johannes Jansson

Introducing... Katrín Jakobsdóttir

Iceland's charismatic new Left-Green prime minister has big plans, but will the Left-Green's radical programme survive political wrangling with other coalition partners asks Richard Swift.

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NI 510 - Black Lives Matter - March, 2018

Rêve Générale to Panama Papers

From France to Iceland, two seemingly disparate movements converge around the same dream, writes Jamie Kelsey-Fry.

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NI 491 - Last stand - Saving the world's forests - April, 2016

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