LONDON, May 12, 1926 (UP) -- The British general strike, which has held this nation in its grip eight and a half days, was called off today. But the coal miners, in sympathy of whose strike the ...

The Russian army is a ‘formidable foe’ and ‘significantly more lethal’ now than when Putin invaded Ukraine, one of the UK’s top army chiefs has warned. Lt Gen Mike Elviss, who commands a key NATO ...

A short history of Britain’s only ever general strike which lasted 10 days and was called in support of locked-out coal miners. Britain’s only ever General Strike shook the British ruling class out of ...

Jonathan Schneer’s Nine Days in May is miserable history. It is a book written to explain to workers that the 1926 British General Strike was doomed to defeat, as proof of the impossibility of all ...

The following lecture was delivered by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), at the SEP (US) International Summer School, held August 2-9, 2025. This is the ...