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Test your General Strike Knowledge with this Quiz of Discontent.

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  • Question of

    Name the Gdansk Trade Union that defied the Communist Party in Poland during the 1980s?

    • Progress
    • Rebirth
    • Solidarity
  • Question of

    Which of these words is pejoratively used to describe those who cross the picket line?

    • Rag
    • Scab
    • Wart
  • Question of

    The first recorded industrial dispute took place where (over 3,000 years ago)?

    • Egypt
    • Babylon
    • Persia
  • Question of

    In 2025, which prominent Labour politician was suspended by the UNITE union for opposing the Birmingham Bin Strike?

    • Angela Raynor
    • Keir Starmer
    • Wes Streeting
  • Question of

    The walk out organised by Sarah Chapman lead to an improvement in the conditions of which Victorian toilers?

    • Chimney Sweeps
    • Loom Operators
    • Matchstick Girls
  • Question of

    And what occupation were the nineteen unarmed strikers shot dead in Lattier, USA in 1897?

    • Farm Labourers
    • Miners
    • Students
  • Question of

    Who was widely blamed for the Ludlow Massacre, USA, which left 21 dead, the majority wives and children of miners?

    • John D. Rockefeller Jr.
    • Henry Ford
    • Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • Question of

    Name the tub-thumping leader of the N.U.M. during the year-long Miner’s Strike 1984/85?

    • Arthur Scargill
    • Joe Gormley
    • Stan Orgreave-Colliery 
  • Question of

    With over 200 million affiliated workers, the International Trade Union Confederation is the largest trade union in the World. Where is it headquartered?

    • Barcelona
    • Brussels
    • Montreal
  • Question of

    British Leyland ‘workers’ were, for their critics, the embodiment of Bolshy 1970s Trade Unionism. How many of the fourteen night-shift workers at a British Leyland plant were caught sleeping on the job during a 1979 surprise inspection?

    • 10
    • 13
    • 14

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