The Dockers Who Won
John Crossland looks at the Dock Strike that succeeded in 1889.
Far from holding high the Red Flag in its centenary year and rising to the challenge of another docks dispute, exactly 100 years to the month since the great strike which inspired Labour's anthem, the Labour Party seem to have been indifferent to, if not embarrassed by, the events of 1889.
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