The Dublin Labour War of 1913
Introduction When Margaret Thatcher's Tories outlawed "secondary" or solidarity strikes, they knew what they were doing. The solidarity strike had defeated the ruling class again and again throughout the 1960s and 70s. When they come out in sympathetic strike, workers act on behalf of interests not directly or narrowly their own. This is class action far more advanced than mere sectional trade-union action. Implicitly, and sometimes openly, it challenges capitalist rule in society. That is why the Tories, the Labour leaders and most trade union officials hate the idea of the sympathetic strike...