Languages of Class Struggle: Communication and Mass Mobilisation in Britain and Ireland 1842-1972 Imperialism The book also tells the

The book also tells the story of the author's childhood in the the poverty of interwar Preston

and institutional violence within this broader structural and historical context

Are the trade unions back

oppression and exploitation of the capitalist system and British imperialism

Languages of Class Struggle: Communication and Mass Mobilisation in Britain and Ireland 1842-1972 Imperialism The book also tells theThis is a study of five key moments in the history of the British and Irish working class movements. 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.