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Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
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The economic crisis and the resurgence of class conflict in the United States![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Contains history of number of strike days per year for 1947 to 2008 This recent article is very interesting because of the facts and figures presented in it. It reviews the latest situation on the current global economic crisis and presents a brief history of the relative state and strength of the labour movement and the top wealthy elite. In this report there are two interesting graphs both of which have been reproduced here. In the first we see the historic number of strike days in the US. As can be seen these are quite high in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and then we have the arrival of Regan in the US and Thatcher in the UK and we see how this assault on labour by these two bureacrats working on behalf of the wealthy elite, launched the fight back and the number of strike days in the years that followed basically collapsed.
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