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... General Strike That Shook Britain David Torrance. Bloomsbury, pp.288, 20. Nine Days in May: The General Strike of 1926 Jonathan Schneer. OUP, pp.432, ...#ajcook #british20th-centuryhistory #economics #ernestbevin #georgev #miners #politics #ramsaymacdonald #stanleybaldwin #tradeunions #waltercitrine
Why the General Strike of 1926 could never succeed | The Spectator Australia
Why the General Strike of 1926 could never succeed

Although it may be in bad taste to have a favourite story about the General Strike of May 1926, one…

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Do not forget that #PoliticalParties under #capitalism always betray the workers. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1924, ~200,000 British dockworkers went on #strike, and the #Labour party under #RamsayMacDonald invoked Emergency Powers to suppress it. They failed and workers got a raise.
Julie HowlinOct 12, 2025

He left school in 1881, at the age of 15, and began work on a nearby farm, although less than a year later he’d taken a job as a teacher at his old school. Ten things you might not know about Ramsay McDonald, the first Labour prime minister.

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12 October: James Ramsay MacDonald.

Born this date in 1866 was former UK prime minister, James Ramsay MacDonald. 10 facts about him: He was the first Labour prime min...

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