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Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite: The General Strike, 13 August 2026
The Future in Our Past: The General Strike, 1926-2026
by Callum Cant and Matthew Lee.
Verso, 154 pp., £11.99, April,978 1 83674 261 6 Show More
by Callum Cant and Matthew Lee.
Verso, 154 pp., £11.99, April,
The Edge of Revolution: The General Strike that Shook Britain
by David Torrance.
Bloomsbury, 320 pp., £20, March,978 1 3994 2359 5 Show More
by David Torrance.
Bloomsbury, 320 pp., £20, March,
Nine Days in May: The General Strike of 1926
by Jonathan Schneer.
Oxford, 416 pp., £25, March,978 0 19 289453 3 Show More
by Jonathan Schneer.
Oxford, 416 pp., £25, March,
Britain’s Revolutionary Summer: The General Strike of 1926
by Edd Mustill.
Oneworld, 324 pp., £16.99, April,978 1 83643 068 1 Show More
by Edd Mustill.
Oneworld, 324 pp., £16.99, April,
“... Activists from different points on the Marxist-communist-anarcho-syndicalist spectrum – Callum Cant and Matthew Lee, Edd Mustill – want to draw lessons and inspiration from the strike. Their books focus mainly on the unions, taking it for granted that the establishment wanted to dominate the working classes. Studies by two academics, David ... ”
