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Remembering the 1926 Miners’ Strike in the Forest of Dean

It is 100 years since the General Strike and Miners' Strike of 1926. The 1926 General Strike was a nine-day nationwide walkout in the UK from 3-12 May, called by the TUC (Trades Union Congress) to support over one million coal miners facing wage cuts and longer hours. Although the TUC called off the General Strike, the miners continued striking for seven more months before they had no choice but to return to work or starve. Forest of Dean miners fought hard for better working conditions and pay. […]
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Strike! – The 1926 General Strike in Gloucester

An afternoon of talks to commemorate the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, featuring authors Tony Conder and Stuart Butler of BRHG pamphlet: A Tale of Two Towns: Nine days in Gloucester and Stroud, May 1926 The event will consist of three talks, looking into details of the General Strike in Gloucestershire. 1pm: Stuart Butler – 'Stroud and the General Strike'. How did Stroud‘s workers respond to the Strike Call? Stuart's talk will look at the strike in the Stroud area and stretch up the […]
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Reflections on the General Strike

What should we learn from the 1926 General Strike and what might the 2026 General Strike look like? Were the TUC fully to blame for the failure of the strike? Why does the labour movement memorialise our failures rather than our victories? What is the relevance of 1926 today? Chairing this discussion and Q&A is Chris Bowkett, a trade union activist, USDAW Bristol branch chair and contributor to the Bristol Radical History Group. Chris has recently written a pamphlet on the relationship […]
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Sex and Docks and Rock and Roll

By Randell Brantley
£10; £9 conc; £8 BAC & TUC members A musical comedy Written by Chumbawamba’s Boff Whalley Directed by Rod Dixon Set in 1960’s Liverpool during a dockworkers and seafarers strike the play looks and laughs at this changing world through the microcosm of one terraced house where the TV does battle with the upright piano. Against a backdrop of picketing, marches and jailings, the McDermotts fight, laugh, lie and sing their way through these challenging times fuelled by home-brewed banana beer […]
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Wiltshire History Day

By Randell Brantley
Organised by White Horse Trades Union Council on 6th November 2010 at St. Margaret's Hall Bradford-on-Avon from 10am. Talk subjects include Chartists and Swing rebellions in Wiltshire as well as strikes in Swindon. You can find more details about this event on Socialist Unity where you can read blogger Andy Newman's assertion that BRHG take "a fundamentally anti-working class and anti-trade union approach" (comment 27). He goes on to say: "there is a smart alec, middle class, know-all-ism about […]
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