For the Love of Labour: International Workers Day 2026

As worldwide fascist powers ascend and endeavour to squash the working class and their organizing efforts, we encourage you to spend International Workers’ Day honouring the efforts of labour advocates. To celebrate, we’ve assembled a program of four unmissable labour docs. This curation showcases four diverse and international examples of workers’ activism: a fearless wildcat strike from South African mineworkers (MINERS SHOT DOWN), an Australian sex worker’s unyielding advocacy efforts (SCARLET ROAD), UK construction workers’ organizing efforts against police repression (SOLIDARITY), and undocumented migrant workers forming a union in New York City (THE HAND THAT FEEDS).

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  • Solidarity
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    Directed by Lucy Parker • 2019 • United Kingdom • 75’

    Solidarity is about activists who are spied upon, systematically denied work and tricked into intimate relationships with undercover police – a community coming together to find a route to justice.

    Blacklisting in the UK construction industr...

  • Miners Shot Down
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    Directed by Rehad Desai ∙ 2014 ∙ South Africa ∙ 86'

    In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. The event b...

  • Scarlet Road
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    Directed by Catherine Scott • 2011 • Australia • 70'

    Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression, Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton specializes in a long overlooked clientele— people with disabilities. Working in New South Wales—where prostitution is legal— Rachel’s philosophy is that human...

  • The Hand that Feeds
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    Directed by Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick ∙ 2014 ∙ United States ∙ 84'

    In THE HAND THAT FEEDS, shy sandwich-maker Mahoma Lopez unites a group of undocumented immigrant co-workers to fight the abusive conditions at a popular New York restaurant chain. The epic power struggle that ensues turns a...

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