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Workers strike back!
The most powerful tool of organised labour is the strike but there is no record kept of where these actions are taking place. Strike Map UK want to change that, write HENRY FOWLER and ROBERT POOLE
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TWENTY twenty has shown us, if nothing else, the value of belonging to a union. When our bosses and our government let us down it’s to our unions we turned.
The most powerful tool at the disposal of organised labour is the strike. The strike serves many purposes including: demanding concessions of capital, and perhaps more importantly, realising worker power through disrupting capital through what Tronti referred to as a “refusal to work.”
Strikes develop class consciousness and by emphasising the collective power of workers they build solidarity.
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