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Photo by Dave Sinclair from https://www.flickr.com/photos/dave_sinclair_liverpool_photos/sets/72157600356404760/" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item"><h2>Timeline of UK schoolchildren's strikes</h2> </div> <div class="field-introduction text-content">A chronology of school pupil walkouts which I have been able to discover in the UK from the 19th century to today. </div> </div> </a> </article> </div> </div> <div class="views-view-responsive-grid__item"> <div class="views-view-responsive-grid__item-inner"> <article data-history-node-id="892" class="node node--type-article node--promoted node--view-mode-card"> <a href="/article/workers-councils-anton-pannekoek"> <div class="node__content"> <div class="field field--name-field-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><div class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-card"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://files.libcom.org/files/styles/large/public/2023-02/Pannekoek.png?itok=xYRvWVur" width="480" height="360" alt="Anton Pannekoek" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item"><h2>Workers' councils - Anton Pannekoek</h2> </div> <div class="field-introduction text-content">Anton Pannekoek's seminal texts describing how workers' councils have been and can be organs of self-organised working class power in struggle -…</div> </div> </a> </article> </div> </div> <div class="views-view-responsive-grid__item"> <div class="views-view-responsive-grid__item-inner"> <article data-history-node-id="13751" class="node node--type-article node--promoted node--view-mode-card"> <a href="/article/lebanon-iran-and-long-war-wider-middle-east"> <div class="node__content"> <div class="field field--name-field-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><div class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-card"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://files.libcom.org/files/styles/large/public/books/280asad_mahmudAP%5B1%5D.jpg?itok=loFjGDt4" width="480" height="360" alt="Hardliner: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" title="Hardliner: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item"><h2>Lebanon, Iran and the ‘Long War’ in the ‘Wider Middle East’</h2> </div> <div class="field-introduction text-content">Aufheben analyse the long-term geopolitical aims of the US in the Middle East, following the…</div> </div> </a> </article> </div> </div> <div class="views-view-responsive-grid__item"> <div class="views-view-responsive-grid__item-inner"> <article data-history-node-id="27816" class="node node--type-article node--promoted node--view-mode-card"> <a href="/article/american-worker-paul-romano-and-ria-stone"> <div class="node__content"> <div class="field field--name-field-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><div class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-card"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://files.libcom.org/files/styles/large/public/images/history/GM%20workers.jpg?itok=Gwe6BMxn" width="480" height="360" alt="General Motors workers assemble an engine" title="General Motors workers assemble an engine" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item"><h2>The American Worker - Paul Romano and Ria Stone</h2> </div> <div class="field-introduction text-content">An extensive two-part article on factory workers in the US in 1947. 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