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Tony Cliff & Donny Gluckstein

Marxism and Trade Union Struggle:
The General Strike of 1926

(1986)

Source: Tony Cliff & Donny Gluckstein, Marxism and Trade Union Struggle – The General Strike of 1926, Bookmarks: London & Chicago 1986.
Copyright: © 1986 Tony Cliff & Donny Gluckstein – Published here with kind permission of the copyright holders.
Transcription & Mark-up: I. Hay
Proofread: Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive (August 2014).

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: SOCIALISTS AND THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT

Chapter One: Trade unions in Russia and Britain
Chapter Two: Marxism, bureaucracy and the trade unions
Chapter Three: Lenin's contribution on trade unions
Chapter Four: The Communist International and trade union strategy
Chapter Five: British socialists and industrial struggle
Chapter Six: Two rank-and-file movements

PART TWO: BRITISH COMMUNISM AND THE ROAD TO THE GENERAL STRIKE

Chapter Seven: The missed opportunity
Chapter Eight: The first few years of the British Communist Party
Chapter Nine: The Minority Movement
Chapter Ten: Tailing the left leaders
Chapter Eleven: The writing on the wall: The Communist Party and 'Red Friday'
Chapter Twelve: The Left-Wing Movement
Chapter Thirteen: Views from outside: Trotsky and the Comintern
Chapter Fourteen: Time runs out for the Communist Party
Chapter Fifteen: The TUC bluff is called

PART THREE: THE NINE DAYS

Chapter Sixteen: Revolutionary mass strike or bureaucratic nightmare?
Chapter Seventeen: A solid strike kept passive
Chapter Eighteen: Controlling food supplies
Chapter Nineteen: Local organisation of the strike
Chapter Twenty: Conspiring for a defeat
Chapter Twenty-One: The ending of the strike – Fact and fiction
Chapter Twenty-Two: The left parties and the strike
Chapter Twenty-Three: The end of an era
Chapter Twenty-Four: In conclusion

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