World War I struggles in Switzerland

Troops detain a striker during the general strike, 1918

An informative account of the wave of working class struggles which took place during and immediately following World War I in Switzerland, by Christian Koller.

Taken from http://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/119298/1/1914-1918-Koller.pdf

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