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Thousands of South African dairy food workers continuing four-month strike over jobs and pay amidst media blackout are joined by South African Sibanye-Stillwater gold miners on pay strike; strikes continue throughout French healthcare system over low staffing levels and poor pay, joined by transport workers in Lyons opposed to restructuring; Iraqi oil production graduates in Basra and workers in oil field area demand jobs, while public sector workers walk out over wage arrears in Kurdistan

Greek healthcare workers in three national strikes in last two weeks over pay and job insecurity; Hungarian teachers protest following government’s attack on right to strike after 20,000 joined two-hour warning strike; UK High Court attack on right to picket continues at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital strike by security staff; food workers’ strike to defend jobs and pay continues at Clover, South Africa despite workers facing hardship and attacks from management thugs

On the third anniversary of the pro-democracy protest movement Hirak, human rights organisations express their alarm over the dangerous intensification of repressive tactics Algerian authorities are using to silence peaceful dissent and stifle civil society.

A brief description of social conditions in post-Civil War Spain followed by an account of the Barcelona general strike of 1951. The events in Barcelona led to strikes across the country and signalled the potential for a return to working class combativity in Spain after over a decade of rule under the Franco regime.

Madrid, Feb 3 (Prensa Latina) Marked by controversies and discrepancies within the government coalition itself, the plenary session of the Spanish Congress of Deputies today gave the green light to a new labor reform.