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Thursday 4 April 2013

Pavlovian Pickard excited by General Strike talk

It’s a sign of the times when the big business paper of record, the Financial Times, gets itself excited by an ‘exclusive’ leak of internal TUC consultation documents on the ‘practicalities of a general strike’ which have been doing the rounds in affiliated unions for weeks. You can only imagine the paper's reaction if far-fetched talk about practicalities became actualities - an editorial calling for Martial Law?
http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2013/04/ft-exclusive-britains-largest-union-presses-for-general-strike/