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In this book we carry a selection of the writings by leading revolutionaries, drawn up as the Strike was happening and in year long lock-out that followed.
Read here, Tom Mann, JT Murphy, Tom Wintringham and Harry Pollitt. With
a foreword by new Communist Party general secretary Alex Gordon.
This is more than a history.
It is a clear-eyed testament written from inside the struggle and is therefore
an indispensable account, offering a perspective that has too rarely found its voice. Hilary Cave walked the picket lines, participated in the decisions, and felt the weight of that year.
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