General Strike documentary screening and discussion

The Morning Star Cardiff Readers Group is organising The Cardiff Morning Star Readers group is commemorating the centenary of the General Strike with the screening of a documentary by Platform Films. The documentary has been recently re-discovered and features an extensive analysis of the preparation for the General Strike, it’s historical and political framework and the state’s reaction to it.

The General Strike 1926 – as told by the people who lived through it.

It’s been a hundred years since Britain had its first and only national strike. Now a recently discovered documentary “THE GENERAL STRIKE: A Revolution Betrayed?” tells the story of the strike, how close it came to success and the disastrous consequences of its failure.

The film, made in the early 1970s, tells how workers across the country come out in support of over a million miners who had been locked out of work for refusing to accept lower pay.

With moving testimony from people alive at the time, the film vividly illustrates how the strike was opposed by the full force of the British establishment and how it was finally betrayed by union leaders.

The film shows how close Britain came to a revolution which might have changed the course of history.

This powerful 73 minute documentary film has now been made available for screenings and viewings by award-winning radical filmmaker Platform Films.