Workers' Liberty 3/19: When the workers rise, part two
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Workers' Liberty 3/19: When the workers rise, part 2
France 1968: When ten million workers took capitalism by the throat [1968]
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“I hate the revolution like sin” said the hangman of Germany’s 1918 revolution, the Social Democrat Ebert. Less direct, but equally clear after the events in France, is the recent statement of the parliamentary leader of the French Communist Party, Robert Balanger: “When we talk about the revolution we now think in terms of a political struggle in which our party agrees tofight the bourgeoisie with their own weapons.”
The miners' strike, 1984-5: 12 months that shook Britain (part one)
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In the small hours of Monday March 12 1984, hundreds of Yorkshire miners moved across the border from Yorkshire into Nottinghamshire. Their destination was Harworth pit, and by the evening shift they had picketed it out.
The miners' strike, 1984-5: 12 months that shook Britain (part two)
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The balance begins to shift
The lack of such a rank and file movement was the basic reason for the failure to stop steel. By late June all the major steelworks were fully supplied, and set to stay that way.