
ACFM Trip 31: Strikes
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A General Strike Is a Form of Revolutionary Change
Benbo's grand national holiday is the first proposition of basically a general strike as a mechanism for which to introduce revolutionary change. In 1842 the chartists adopt Benbo's grandnational holiday as a strategy and that's where the sort of 1842 strike and plug riots came out. People are going to be wondering why we haven't mentioned the Tolpodel Martyrs, TolpodelMartyrs group of workers who were sentenced to exile in Australia in the early 1830s because they had tried to form a local union. That was... when is the Newport Rising should look like my chronology of chartism is always really bad actuallyYeah so because it's stock because I you know like a
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