May 2026 marks the 100th anniversary of the nine day ‘General Strike’. This solidarity action was an attempt by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to prevent wage reductions and increasingly bad working conditions for 1.2 million coal miners who had already been locked-out by their employers. Around 1.7 million workers, mainly in transport and heavy industry, responded and the country was confronted with explicit class war.
“I will not see the strikers’ own food left to rot!” Chris Bowkett from the Bristol Radical History Group will talk about his forthcoming pamphlet Conflicts of Interest on the tensions between trade unionists in the cooperative movement during the 1926 General Strike.
Matt from Working Class History will talk about how the ‘General Strike 100’ project came about, and why mapping the general strike is an essential part of remembering it.
Event details
Date: , 2026
Time:
Venue: Newport Rising Hub, NP20 1JN
Price: Pay What You Want
With: Chris Bowkett
Series: Not in a series
