Author: R. Martin
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 12

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Author: Roderick Martin
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Account of communist political party activities within trade unions in the UK, with particular reference to the historical aspect of the national level minority movement during the period from 1924 to 1933 - covers the role of leadership and membership in the general strike, influence on government policy, political aspects, labour disputes, the struggle against capitalist ideologies, the impact of the economic recession on the movement and its collapse. References.

Author: British Trades Union Delegation to Russia and Caucasia, 1924
Publisher:
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Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: James Hinton
Publisher:
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Category : General Strike, Great Britain, 1926
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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The British Communist Party and the founding of the National Minority Movement.

Author: Friedrich Adler
Publisher:
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Category : British Trades Union Delegation to Russia and Caucasia
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: Daniel F. Calhoun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521089692
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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The book concerns the Soviet effort during the 1920s to make contact with - and if possible revolutionize - the European labour movement, by first establishing a special relationship with the British Trades Union Congress. The ultimate failure of that effort, after the collapse of the general strike in 1926, inspired Trotsky to try one last time to oust Stalin, a confrontation that led to utter collapse of the Trotskyite opposition in 1927-28. The author suggests the failure of this particular 'united front' effort was a major factor in the sectarianism and isolationism of the Communist movement from 1928 to 1934, and thus had a significant affect on the rise of the Nazi party in Germany.

Author: Rob Sewell
Publisher: Wellred Books
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 583

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There are many narrative histories of the struggles of British workers. However, Rob Sewell's book is different. This book is aimed especially at class-conscious workers who are seeking to escape from the ills of the capitalist system, that has embroiled the world in a quagmire of wars, poverty and suffering. This history of trade unions is particularly relevant at the present time. After a long period of stagnation, the fresh winds of the class struggle are beginning to blow. Rob Sewell's book was written precisely with these new forces in mind. The British labour movement is the oldest in the world. More than two hundred years ago, the pioneers of the movement created illegal revolutionary trade unions in the face of the most terrible violence and repression. In the course of the nineteenth century they built trade unions of the downtrodden unskilled workers - those with "blistered hands and the unshorn chins," as Feargus O'Connor called them. Finally, they established a mass party of Labour based on the trade unions, breaking the monopoly of the Tories and Liberals. In the stormy years following the Russian Revolution they engaged in ferocious class battles, culminating in the General Strike of 1926. Nor did the achievements of the British trade union movement cease with the Depression and the Second World War. The post-war upswing served to strengthen the working class and heal the scars of the inter-war period. By the time of the industrial tidal wave of the early 1970s, they drove a Tory government from power, after turning Edward Heath's anti-trade union laws into a dead letter. Later, the miners, the traditional vanguard of the British working class, waged an epic year-long struggle in 1984-85 against the juggernaut of Thatcherism. They could have succeeded, had the rightwing Labour and trade union leaders not abandoned them and left them isolated. The book contains vital lessons and is essential reading for today's worker militants.

Author: Thomas Bell
Publisher:
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Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Alan Campbell
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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The first of two volumes focusing on the politics of British trade unionism since World War II, considering not only the movement's relations with the state but also factionalism, the dynamics of industrial struggle, and the allegiances of union activists. Historians, scholars of politics and industrial relations, and others present 11 studies, many from a September 1997 conference in Warwick augmented with commissioned essays, include overviews, a survey, and case studies. The second volume is subtitled The High Tide of Trade Unionism, 1940-1979. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Roy Hudson
Publisher: New York : Workers Library Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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