I always mention that we should know our history. We can learn a lot from the struggles of the past and what it teaches us, as far as the working class is concerned, is that it is the same struggle today as it was then. We struggle to get a decent standard of living against a class that wants it all for itself, without doing any of the work. We struggle against increasing prices, profiteering, and unemployment. Where we have won victories it is usually be direct action.
One such victory was 200 years ago today, when a riot broke out because the price of butter had reach 2s.6p a pound. A group of workers including coal miners seized all the butter in their area and sold it at a price they considered fair and then returned all the money to the owners of the butter. Six of those involved were arrested and taken to Bridewell Prison.
SOLIDARITY.
Perhaps there is a lesson there somewhere, direct action usually gets results. However the struggle for that decent standard of living will continue until we get rid of the system that allows profiteers and those with the wealth to continually exploit us for their selfish personal gain.
