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John Keenan, best known for his role in organising a boycott of work on jet engines destined for Chile after the Pinochet coup of 1973, passed away in the early hours of 8 September 2023. John was a lifelong trade unionist, initially a member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and finally, as a result of a succession of mergers over the decades, a member of Unite the Union.
John Keenan, best known for his role in organising a boycott of work on jet engines destined for Chile after the Pinochet coup of 1973, passed away in the early hours of 8 September 2023. John was a lifelong trade unionist, initially a member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and finally, as a result of a succession of mergers over the decades, a member of Unite the Union.
Divisions between reformist and revolutionary strategies were exposed by the efforts to build a Chile solidarity movement in the UK, explains Chris Bambery On 11 September 1973, I was working at a summer job between school and university.
Written in the early 1940s, British syndicalist Tom Brown's article The Social General Strike - Why 1926 Failed examines the failure of the 1926 General Strike. It makes suggestions for future action, and argues for worker's control.
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