From International Socialism 2:29, Summer 1985, pp. 3–61.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.
[Introduction]
Rosa Luxemburg, 1905 and the classic account of the mass strike
Purely economic and purely political general strikes:
Sweden 1909 and Belgium 1913
The 1926 general strike in Britain
Why were the union leaders so strong in 1926?
The biggest mass strike in history – France 1968
The 1972 British miners’ strike
Background to the 1972 miners’ strike
The 1984-85 miners’ strike
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