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A short history of the of the widespread strike movement that occurred during the winter of 1978-1979 in Britain. The 'Winter of Discontent' marked the largest stoppage of labour since the 1926 General Strike.
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libcom.org/history/1978-1979-winter-of-discontent
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By contrast, those who lived through the winter of discontent remember how grim life was in late 1978 and early 1979. Kenneth Morgan gives an apt description of how things were in his biography of Jim Callaghan: "Sick patients went unattended; ... What in the hell happened to the EVOLUTION of human consciousness..?
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Downing Street last night faced the embarrassment of the first 'dirty jobs' national dispute since the 1979 winter of discontent helped defeat the last Labour government, after 1.3 million council workers overwhelmingly rejected ... 2. World Cup play-off: France v Republic of Ireland - as it happened | Barry Glendenning...
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Where the Winter of Discontent (1979 edition) was the ultimate expression of Government messing hands-on with things they didn’t understand and crashing into excessive application of feudal trade union powers (they’re not called union BARONS for nothing), the current mess is a result of Government abdicating...
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THE WINTER OF DISCONTENT: AN INTRODUCTION ... NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT ... THE CREEPING STRIKES OF SPRING AND SUMMER 1979...
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The winter of discontent was first and foremost part of an international wave of workers' struggles that shook the capitalist heartlands in the late 1970s. The key significance of these struggles was that they were primarily directed against the left and the unions. ... At the beginning of January 1979,
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en.internationalism.org/wr/320/winter-of-discontent
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With 16 months before he has to call an election, Brown is facing the toughest test of a Labour premier since James Callaghan’s so-called Winter of Discontent in 1979, after which the party was cast out of office for almost two decades.
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November 22nd, 2007 ... Did Darling mislead the House? ... Mike, I think it puns even better as “the Winter of Disc-content”.
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The "Winter of Discontent" is a term used to describe the British winter of 1978–1979, during which there were widespread strikes by trade unions demanding larger pay rises for their members, and the government of James Callaghan struggled to cope.
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www.bookrags.com/Winter_of_discontent
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