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THE mainstream media are already beginning a narrative about the forthcoming triple whammy of crises facing workers this coming winter. As a misleading distraction they are repeating the old trope about the 1979 winter and the role played by trade unionists in making it a difficult time.
Tories often refer back to this traumatic period as an example of wildcat strikes, reckless unions wanting to run the country and a Labour government hamstrung by its relationship with the TUC.
For socialists, this travesty has been challenged by an alternative narrative that shows workers struggling in the face of plummeting living standards, out-of-control inflation at a staggering 13 per cent and the unemployment rate doubling to over 5 per cent, with half a million extra people thrown onto the dole. It was a winter of struggle against a right-wing Labour government attacking the people who funded it.
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