In Sheffield approximately 80,000 workers went out on strike in the General Strike of 1926, in the difficult years after World War One (1914-1918). It was Britain’s first – and only – general strike (so far!). Join Sheffield City Archives and Local Historian Dr John Baxter to mark the centenary of the General Strike, with this FREE history talk, it…

  The Socialist Equality Party (British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International or ICFI), offers this two-hour event, an analysis of the General Strike of 1926. It was launched in response to a massive attack on the wages of Britain’s 1.2 million coal miners, amid a period of labour unrest. But the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which…