Tema: Storbritannien 1900-1945

Storbritannien 1900-1945

Bob Light: Book Review: Nine days that shaped the words
International Socialism Journal nr. 151, jul 16 – side 208
Note: 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 Strike is inscribed in writing in a variety of genres over the subsequent 50 years.
 

Shaun Doherty: Book Review: Learning the lessons of the past
International Socialism Journal nr. 149, jan 16 – side 210
Note: John Newsinger, Them and Us: Fighting the Class War 1910-1939 (Bookmarks, 2015), £7.99
John Newsinger opens this timely account of working class struggle in the first half of the 20th century with what at first seems an incongruous statement: “We live in a period of unprecedented class warfare”. But he argues that the only reason this sounds strange is that the war has been so brutally one-sided in recent years.
 

Greg Jones: Film Review: Relatives bring the 1926 General Strike in Fife to life
Socialist Worker nr. 2343, mar 13 – side 13
Note: A powerful new film, The Happy Lands, recreates the General Strike of 1926 with non-professional actors and relatives of the strikers, says Greg Jones.
 

John Gray: Titanic: A disaster built on class
Socialist Worker nr. 2298, apr 12 – side 8
Note: A hundred years ago the sinking of the Titanic exposed capitalists’ contempt for ordinary people, argues historian John Gray
 

Tim Evans: The Great Unrest and a Welsh town
International Socialism Journal nr. 131, jul 11 – side 153
Note: The key confrontation of Britain’s first national railway strike—for better pay and an end to an unfair arbitration system—occurred on Saturday 19 August 1911 in Llanelli, a tinplate-producing town in south west Wales.
 

Charlie Kimber: Llanelli 1911: war on the railways
Socialist Worker nr. 2181, dec 09 – side 13
Note: The great railway strike of 1911 saw incredible battles between workers, scabs, bosses and soldiers.
 

Chris Bambery: Syndicalism and the limits of radical trade unionism
Socialist Worker nr. 2104, jun 08 – side 13
Note: Chris Bambery looks at the issues raised by some fascinating debates between revolutionaries and left wing trade unionists in the early 20th century.
 

Matthew Cookson: Labour in crisis: Labour’s ‘Great betrayal’ led to the brink of collapse
Socialist Worker nr. 2103, maj 08 – side 6
Note: In the first part of our new series on past crises in the Labour Party Matthew Cookson looks at the party’s response to the 1930s.
 

Judy Cox: Beyond the Pankhursts
International Socialism Journal nr. 112, sep 06 – side 199
Note: A review of Jill Liddington: "Rebel Girls: Their Fight for the Vote" (Virago Press, 2006), £14.99
 

Martin Smith: Bookwatch: the General Strike
International Socialism Journal nr. 70, mar 96 – side 155
Note: Martin Smith's Bookwatch celebrates the 70th anniversary of the General Strike.
 

Julie Waterson: The party at its peak (Nina Fishman: "The British Communist Party and the Trade Unions, 1933-45")
International Socialism Journal nr. 69, dec 95 – side 77
 

Donny Gluckstein: Revolt on the Clyde (1919)
Socialist Review nr. 116, jan 89 – side 22
Note: The year 1919 was one of dramatic and social upheaval throughout the world. Inspired by the Russian Revolution and angered by the bosses behaviour at the end of the war, workers in country after country clashed with their rulers. In Britain Glasgow became the focus of workers struggle.
Donny Gluckstein examines the events and their outcome.
 

Tony Cliff: The tragedy of A J Cook
International Socialism Journal nr. 31, mar 86 – side 69
Note: A J Cook was a leader of the miners during the 1926 General Strike
 

Caspar Diklev: Generalstrejken i England 1926: Med hænderne i skødet
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 6, mar 85 – side 6
Note: Selvom TUC – det engelske LO – fik syv måneder til at forberede en generalstrejke i 1926, så gjorde de intet ud over at holde brandtaler for medlemmerne, hvori de forklarede hvor fast de stod, og hvilken magt fagbevægelsen egentlig besad. Derimod var den engelske regering helt klar over situationens alvor, og den forberedte sig grundigt.
 

Mike Haynes: The British working class in revolt: 1910-1914
International Socialism Journal nr. 22, dec 83 – side 87
 

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