General Strike Now4d ago

Baldwin caved then to general strike threats, offering mines short-term subsidies. But perhaps it was naive. Unions also under-prepared to avoid ...

It was the biggest demonstration of working-class “selflessness, loyalty, creativity and resolve” that Britain has ever seen. And it all started at the Daily Mail.…#DowningStreet #CentenaryofGeneralStrike #UKLabourParty #UKpolitics #PM #KeirStarmer #HouseofCommons #Chancellor #primeMinister #Politics #GeneralStrike #Government #RachelReeves #Labour #MPs #LabourParty #Parliament
‘General strike 1926: Why it happened, failed and couldn’t happen now’ – LabourList

'General strike 1926: Why it happened, failed and couldn’t happen now' - LabourList

The General Strike was 100 years ago. Why did it start? Why did it fail? Could it happen now?

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General Strike Now5d ago
Were the leaders of the 1926 General Strike, A.J. Cook and Walter Citrine, transported to the present day, they would find a trade union movement ...#DowningStreet #CentenaryofGeneralStrike #UKLabourParty #UKpolitics #PM #KeirStarmer #HouseofCommons #Chancellor #primeMinister #Politics #GeneralStrike #Government #RachelReeves #Labour #MPs #LabourParty #Parliament
‘Organised labour has transformed the world of work for the better’ – LabourList
'Organised labour has transformed the world of work for the better' - LabourList

We owe it to the memory of the General Strike to fight to deliver the New Deal for Working People in full and to go beyond it.

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