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“Their Greatest Effort Ever”: The British General Strike at 100

The was “the greatest effort the British workers had ever made,” wrote the historian and economist G. One hundred years ago on May 4, 1926, a million British workers walked off their jobs. general strike These workers struck in sympathy with miners — more than a million of them, who had.

general strike These workers struck in sympathy with miners — more than a million of them, who had.

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