A terrific wave of strike ballot activity has swept over British industries from the health service, railways, road maintenance, the Royal Mail, baggage handlers, driving instructors to the border force and likely more in the next year. The Cabinet Office, in a series of emergency meetings, has ordered British Army

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  • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlOP
    6·
    2 years ago

    Okay, I never want to see someone saying “The UK has freedom to protest unlike insert hated country!” ever again. A strike is literally the most peaceful form of protest, the whole point is you do nothing because you’re upset, doesn’t get more peaceful than that, and they sent in the fucking army. Just imagine how much the UK would be screeching if this was reported in China or Russia.

    • Leninistkommus
      6·
      2 years ago

      The bourgeois governments of the West have been repressing Socialist and workers’ movements for over a century. Only now they have resorted to open military force, rather than using secret police. (FBI, MI6, etc.)

      • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlOP
        5·
        2 years ago

        Only now they have resorted to open military force

        Nah, they’ve been doing that since forever. Cold war, Vietnam war, Korean war, destruction of the Paris commune, etc etc etc.