1926 general strike Archives • International Socialism

Force and fraud: capitalist repression and the lessons from the 1920s

Posted on 1st July 2025 by International Socialism

The British state’s assaults on the Palestine movement, Kurdish activists, Just Stop Oil members and others in 2024 and 2025 is a serious challenge to our right to protest and to organise.1 The arrests at the national demonstration for Palestine… Continue Reading →

Nine days that shaped the words

Posted on 22nd June 2016 by Camilla

A review of Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill, Writing the 1926 General Strike: Literature, Culture, Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2015), £55 This is an exemplary book which does exactly what it says on the tin, examining how the 1926 General… Continue Reading →