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ACFM Trip 31: Strikes

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Industrial Strikes and Socialism in Britain

The prospect of organized labor being used for political towards political ends terrifies large chunks of society. The legal regime introduced by the Thatcher and Major government in the 80s and 90s is to isolate industrial strikes, he says. He argues that it's one of the foundational principles of modern bourgeois capitalist liberalism the idea that the economy is somehow completely separate from politics is outside politics.

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