On January 16, 1926, uproar was caused by a BBC Radio play about a workers’ revolution! The Russian Revolution was nine years behind and only Trotsky’s ‘Left Opposition’ opposed Stalin’s control of the Soviet bureaucracy but revolution reverberated around the world still.
On May 3, 1926 the British General Strike began. It lasted nine days before the lure of government-TUC negotiations deflected workers away from their fight.
My grandfather in Chicago was a confused Communist supporter. In 1926 the winds of wealth and want were blowing together again: Route 66 was opened that year and TV was an experiment away, but work on large construction projects was becoming less and less secure. Muriel Grace was one year old.
Working class Reds on this side of the family - true Blue Masons on the other…
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