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Our History: Pamphlet 17
by Graham Stevenson
(Communist Party History Group, £1.50)
IN THIS two-part issue of a new series of pamphlets on working-class history, Coventry-born Graham Stevenson explores the city's munitions strike of 1917 and the associated rise of the shop stewards movement there.
Coventry’s radical traditions go back to its siding with the Parliamentarians during the English revolution of 1642, but here Stevenson examines the radicalism of the early 20th century.
As a result of the increased demands made on the country during the first world war, Coventry became a centre of munitions and vehicle manufacturing employing many thousands.
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