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May 2026<\/strong>\u00a0marks the 100th anniversary of the nine day \u2018General Strike\u2019. 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will not see the strikers\u2019 own food left to rot!\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Chris Bowkett from the Bristol Radical History Group will talk about his forthcoming pamphlet Conflicts of Interest<\/em> <\/strong>on the tensions between trade unionists in the cooperative movement during the 1926 General Strike.<\/p>\n

Matt from Working Class History<\/a> will talk about how the ‘General Strike 100’<\/strong><\/em> project came about, and why mapping the general strike is an essential part of remembering it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 2026\u00a0marks the 100th anniversary of the nine day \u2018General Strike\u2019. 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. 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