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Strike participation rates reached record highs today as workers across Morocco joined a national general strike to protest strike law, among other issues, according to estimates compiled by unions.

According to a report published overnight Wednesday by Al-Jazeera, a general strike was declared in the city of Jenin, located in northern Samaria. The strike followed an operation in which six ...

Footage circulating on social media showed baton-wielding individuals attacking people on the streets who were participating in the strike. A local independent media outlet says the incumbent ...

After three months of protests, demonstrators in Serbia are calling for a general strike. The government is threatening retaliation. Serbia is at a crossroads. Is change possible? "Corruption kills." ...

Belgrade: Student organisers in Serbia called for a general strike this week, according to an announcement Wednesday, in the latest move to increase pressure on officials over the fatal collapse ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iranian Kurdish opposition groups called for a general strike in the western Kurdish areas (Rojhelat) on Wednesday to condemn the Islamic republic's death sentences for ...