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...skilled workers, unskilled workers, people in very precarious forms of employment. And those divisions have always existed to be exploited and, from the 1980s onwards, many of those internal divisions widened for various reasons, not least because of deindustrialisation, consigning many traditional industrial communities to insecure work, long-term unemployment for many...

...skill, delay and finesse it took to get here and for the disproportionate venom she has felt from the right and far left. Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry are her political kin, after all, but garner nowhere near such emotive reactions. They could tell Bernie to just get out. She cannot. No other woman in American history has successfully...

...skills these workers used on a day-to-day basis were deployed to full effect and became a defining characteristic of the strike. This was a strike that was colourful, vibrant and full of jagged humour. Strike days and picket lines were often themed - beach day was a particular favourite. The words of well know nursery rhymes and songs were even changed to reflect their...