General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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What can we learn from the ‘Red Summer’ of 1919?
ROGER McKENZIE draws inspiration from the black self-organisation of the early 20th century
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LIKE many people in the depths of the winter I have begun to look forward to the warm days of the summer.
But looking ahead this year I am reminded that it will be the 125th anniversary of the “Red Summer” of 1919.
The summer of that year was as red in Britain as it was on the other side of the Atlantic in the United States.
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