🏛️ Politics 12h ago · Alwyn W Turner

When Britain fought for revolution

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A century on and still the definite article is used. The confrontation between the government and the trade unions that began on 4 May 1926 remains the General Strike, the only one Britain has seen. Perhaps that is its major legacy. The complete defeat of the strike, the capitulation of the union leaders after nine days, left a taste so bitter than there was a reluctance to repeat the experience. “It was as though a beast long fabled for its ferocity had emerged for an hour, scented danger, and

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