1926 general strike

Content about the 1926 general strike in Britain.

Charting the class struggle

I was looking into the historical data on strike days in Britain for a feature in Catalyst, but there's a lot more to discuss than we could fit…

The British Worker - general strike newspaper, 1926

Online archive of The British Worker, the daily newspaper published by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) during the 10 day general strike of 1926.

Ten days in the class war: Merseyside and the 1926 general strike

Battleships on the Mersey, riots in Wirral, and almost everyone refusing to work! Adam Ford takes a…

General strike 1926 - further reading guides

libcom's guide to further reading around the UK general strike of 1926.

British seamen marching to jail in Wellington, New Zealand, September 1925.

Strike Across The Empire, 1925 - Baruch Hirson and Lorraine Vivian

A fascinating and detailed account of a little known international seamens' strike in 1925, lasting…

Arthur Cook addresses a crowd of strikers

1926: British general strike

A short history of Britain’s only ever general strike which lasted 10 days and was called in support of locked-out coal miners.

Tyldesley miners outside the Miners Hall during the 1926 General Strike.

1926: The social general strike - why 1926 failed - Tom Brown

Written in the early 1940s, British syndicalist Tom Brown's article The Social General Strike - Why…