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A week of strikes against Con-Dem pay cuts climaxed on Saturday in a spirited 100,000-strong show of force by people working harder than ever under poverty wages.
Nurses, midwives, carers and civil servants marched through central London with thousands more workers days after taking to the picket lines to demand their first real-terms pay rise since the Tories took power.
Speaking at the vast Britain Needs a Pay Rise rally in Hyde Park, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady praised their determination and said: “This is what solidarity feels like.”
The General Strike exposed the power of the working class — and the limits of its leadership, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
One hundred years after 1.7m workers shut the country down in defence of the miners, the struggles that sparked the 1926 General Strike are still with us – and will be honoured on London’s May Day march this year, writes MARY ADOSSIDES
Solidarity is needed for the longest strike in NHS history, argues HENRY FOWLER of Strike Map
Ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections, ROZ FOYER warns that a bold tax policy is needed to rebuild devastated public services which can serve as the foundation of a strong, fair economy