Ten times the Labour party stood behind striking workers in Britain

Actually, there aren’t any. Sorry.

bowbrick
8 min readAug 22, 2022

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The story is that Labour is the only major socialist party in the world that emerged directly from organised labour — every other important party — from the DSA to the SPD to the PS and the JSP — was the product of an actual revolution or of a popular socialist movement. Labour founders Keir Hardie and Arthur Henderson had both been union leaders and many early Labour parliamentarians were well-known workplace leaders or campaigners for workers’ rights.

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