Winter of Discontent

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in the virtually empty Christ the Saviour cathedral called ‘Punk Prayer’, with lines including ‘Holy Mary, Mother of God, banish Putin! Banish Putin!’ During this winter of discontent, when the demonstrations were at their height, it briefly seemed Putin might get less than half the votes. That would have forced a humiliating second

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Milton fell for his colonial capitalist paradise. 1. In late 1978, inflation was high and rising in the United States. Britain was entering its own “winter of discontent,” a record-breaking number of labor actions helping to spawn a backlash that culminated with union-buster Margaret Thatcher’s rise to power. Unrest rumbled

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something for the benefit of the polity. Its supporters were in open revolt, and public sector workers initiated a series of crippling strikes in the ‘winter of discontent’ of 1978. ‘Hospital workers went out, and medical care had to be severely rationed. Striking gravediggers refused to bury the dead. The truck drivers were

Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions

by Paul Mason  · 30 Sep 2013  · 357pp  · 99,684 words

those arrested was poverty. The events, whose precise significance is still being disputed by criminolo-gists and social theorists, formed a coda to the British winter of discontent. Because—from Millbank to the summer riots—the scale of British discontent looks small beside the Arab Spring, it’s been possible to ignore its

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with the obsolete political institutions inherited from a historically superseded social structure.22 If this is correct, we can expect horizontalism to survive its first winter of discontent, and to resist absorption into the trade unions or the liberal and social-democratic parties. But having exhausted tent camps and general assemblies with their

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Corbyn

by Richard Seymour

public enterprises were ‘lame ducks’, that unemployment still soared, that the consensus had yielded to ‘stagflation’, and that the social contract broke down with the ‘winter of discontent’, showed the state to be not merely ‘nannying’, but also ineffectual. What is more, the leadership of social democracy was increasingly in agreement with the

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days lost in industrial disputes rose alarmingly to a post-war peak by 1979, a level as bad as any in the century. The notorious ‘winter of discontent’ of 1978–9 saw bodies left unburied because gravediggers were on strike, rubbish piling up in streets because the refuse collectors were on strike, children

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the 1970s, unions in some countries like the UK had become highly combative and were arguably making the country increasingly ungovernable, as evidenced by the “Winter of Discontent” in 1978–1979 which led to many voters swaying towards Thatcher. Perhaps the most controversial aspect of Olson’s thesis is that the accumulation of

The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010

by Selina Todd  · 9 Apr 2014  · 525pp  · 153,356 words

the Guardian five weeks before the election, the journalist Alastair Cooke prophesied that a Conservative victory would be brought about by voters’ fears of a ‘winter of discontent’ characterized by fuel shortages, continued rationing and inflation.51 In fact, polls showed that the shortage of housing was the most important reason why some

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, November 1950, General Election Departmental Records, CCO 500/24/1, Conservative Party Archive, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, p. 41. 51. ‘Tory Victory in a Winter of Discontent’, Manchester Guardian (22 September 1951), p. 6. 52. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday​/hi/dates/stories/​october/26/newsid_ 3687000/​3687425.stm. 53. K

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joined by garbage collectors, gravediggers, and crematorium workers. The Conservatives and their supporters on Fleet Street seized upon these events, which became known as the Winter of Discontent. Accusing the unions of holding the country to ransom, Thatcher called on Callaghan to declare a state of emergency. She also proposed a series of

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Obama. Obama’s 2012 triumph seemed to belong to another era. And the “silliness” that elites mocked over the summer of 2015 matured into a winter of discontent, with no spring in sight. The whiplash between 2012 and 2016 baffles the elite. Trump’s victory leaves observers who found it unimaginable feeling as

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