government public services workers strike in UNITED KINGDOM May 2026

'NO SLACKENING' read the British Worker's headline, “the number of strikers has not diminished: it is increasing. There are more workers out today ...

Workers Revolutionary Party General Secretary Nash Campbell, who chaired the rally, said: 'We're marking 100th anniversary of the General Strike. 'Now ...

With the dawning of Sunday 9 May 1926, the capitalist papers – the few that went to print, anyway – tell a false story of nervous strikers who ...

They failed to prepare the workers politically, insisting the strike was “purely industrial,” thereby denying its inherently political, revolutionary ...

Across the Pennines in Crewe, left-wing Labour MP and former Communist Party member Ellen Wilkinson reported an “extraordinary” march, “over a mile ...

On 4th May 1926, workers in many key industries – transport, printing, metal and chemical manufacture, construction, power generation – went on strike ...

Ernest Bevin, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, speaking for the Council, implored “every man and woman…to fight for the ...

100 years later, they visited the communities where the struggle burned brightest, uncovering the lessons the General Strike holds for labour ...

The playbook used to crush the 1926 General Strike — divide workers by sector, by race, and gender, and nation, to de-legitimize solidarity; to ...

One hundred years ago on May 4, 1926, a million British workers walked off their jobs. These workers struck in sympathy with miners — more than a ...

Archives shed light on the General Strike in 1926 when many workers walked out in solidarity with miners who were fighting wage cuts and longer ...

A century ago this week, the paper's London workers refused to print an editorial urging the public to resist a threatened general strike, which it ...

An image of striking workers and police from the May 1926 general strike in London,. Today, London is seen as a city dominated by international ...

But the British mining industry no longer exists, thanks to the betrayal of that strike by the Trades Union Congress, the Labour Party and the leaders ...

TUC passivity · The Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain (CP) · All power to the General Council! · The Samuel Commission Report as a ...

Up to two million workers in Britain began nine days of strikes 100 years ago this week.

It is a hundred years since British workers went out in the General Strike of 1926. It was a colossal battle between an imperial power and the trade ...

Here Sarah Friday, Camden Trades Council Secretary, explores the impact of the 1926 Strike in St Pancras. A Labour Hub long read. St Pancras Trades ...