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Communist Unity Convention 1919-1920 The proceedings of the Communist Unity Convention at which the Communist Party of Great Britain was founded. Negotiations began early in 1919 to unite the various British Marxist and revolutionary groups and organisations into a single Party. |
The British General strike of May 1926 was called by the General Council of the Trade Union Congress in a dispute over miners wages and conditions, calling for nationalisation of the coal mines. The government was brought to the edge of defeat, but the TUC leaders backed down, resulting in an historic defeat. |
National Minority Movement 1924-1933 Launched in 1924, the National Minority Movement replaced the British Bureau of the Red International of Labour Unions. It aimed to unify militant trade unionists, co-operators and unemployed workers in their respective organisations “for the purpose of conducting a relentless struggle against the leadership” to revolutionise policy. |
The Struggle Against Trotskyism
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