Languages of Class Struggle - Communication and Mass Mobilisation in Britain and Ireland 1842-1972

This is an account of five significant episodes in the history of the working-class movements in Britain and Ireland which, to various degrees, challenged the power of the capitalist state.

John Foster applies some of the key insights of Soviet Marxist thinkers on language to the 1842 General Strike, the Councils of Action 1920, the Glasgow and Belfast General Strikes of 1919 and the 1972 UCS work-in on Clydeside

Professor John Foster is a Trustee of Marx Memorial Library & Workers' School.