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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
1: The Great Revolt
Harbingers
South Wales begins
1911: The year of the militant
1912: The momentum builds
1913-1914
The left
2: War
The first round
Rent strike
The Clyde Workers’ Committee
Sheffield
Women workers
1917
The Russian example
‘The steam train of history’
3: The threat of revolution
Soldiers’ strikes
‘Better trained than the police’
The 40-hours strike
Duping the miners
The police and the railwaymen
Machine guns and bombs
‘Hands Off Russia’
Black Friday
Forming the Communist Party
4: The first Labour government
‘An epidemic of unrest’
‘The future museum of British revolution’
5: The General Strike and the Miners’ Lockout
Red Friday
Preparing for war
Trying to surrender
The General Strike
Victimisation
The Communist Party during the ‘Nine Days’
The Miners’ Lockout
6: Unemployed struggles and the fight against fascism
1931: The fight against the National Government
Unemployed struggles
Revolt and repression
1932: The Hunger March
Removing the unemployed workers’ leadership
The struggle renewed
Fighting fascism
The Battle of Cable Street
Solidarity with Spain
Conclusion: The coming fight-back
Endnotes
Index
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