History of trade unions in the United Kingdom TUC General Council. He focused on racial issues. British unions collaborated with the AFL–CIO in the United States on international projects. In the 1980s, worldwide union attention focused on the Solidarity union movement in Poland, which finally succeeded in breaking the communist control of that country. Norman Willis, the general secretary of the TUC, vigorously promoted union support for Solidarity. The nuclear disarmament movement, which played a major role in Labour Party internal politics in the 1980s, was primarily a middle-class movement that had little support in the labour movement. Major strike action by British unions during the 1978–1979 Winter
Workers Solidarity Movement out twice a year, in April and October. The WSM has also published numerous pamphlets including 'Towards a Cure' on health, 'Parliament or Democracy?' and the Irish Rebellion of 1798 Several members of the WSM as well as anarchists from the squatting community in Dublin were instrumental in organising and spearheading The Barricade Inn, Squatted Anarchist Social Centre on at 77 Parnell Street. The Irish Housing Network formed in the building, using the main meeting room to hold discussions and talks about its structures and policies. Workers Solidarity Movement The Workers Solidarity Movement is an anarchist-communist organisation in Ireland, identifying