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ACFM Trip 31: Strikes

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The Christmas 1983 Number One Hit Only You by the Flying Pickets

The Thatcher reform of trading in laws prohibited from the 80s onwards were solidarity strikes with other sections of the workforce and mass picketing. To this day legally you're only you're supposed to only have how many six people on a packet line which is really egregious i mean i think you can make a perfectly good argument that in a liberal polity you can't allow people pickets to physically prevent people from crossing a picket line but you should be allowed to show people who want to cross a picket lines how many people are asking them not to do so it's a complete inhibition of democratic collective mobilization. We thought we would play the christmas 1983 number one hit only you by the flying

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