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The sinister campaign, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Times, Sun, and the Daily Mail, seeks to brand strikes by tens of thousands of rail workers as the brainchild of Russian agents.
In the first of two articles about the firefighters' dispute Chris Jones, former Merseyside FBU brigade chair and a member of the Revolutionary Democratic Group, looks at the background to the dispute.
An overview of the UK's 1979 "Winter of Discontent" strike wave, from the Revolt Against an Age of Plenty site. Subtitled History and class consciousness in the UK, this article was written around 2002. [A considerably revised 2012 version of this text is here; http://libcom.org/history/delightful-measures-changed-reflections-1978-79-winter-discontent#comment-511644]