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workingclasshistory: “On this day, 26 July 1945, the Labour Party took office after beating Winston Churchill in a landslide victory. However within five days they sent conscript troops into the Surrey docks in London to break a dock workers’...

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On this day, 26 July 1945, the Labour Party took office after beating Winston Churchill in a landslide victory. However within five days they sent conscript troops into the Surrey docks in London to break a dock workers’ go-slow. Though often mythologised now as a great socialist government, Labour sent troops to break strikes on many occasions, including against dockers, lorry drivers, power station workers and gas workers. This is an informative pamphlet by Solidarity about the Labour government’s war with the dockworkers: https://libcom.org/library/labour-party-dockers-1945-1951-solidarity
Pictured: Troops working as scabs during the 1945 dock strike https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1174906589361156/?type=3

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