Ulster Workers' Council Strike - Summary of Main Events
[KEY_EVENTS] [Key_Issues] [Conflict_Background] UWC STRIKE:
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on this page may change The rebellion, by a large section of the
loyalist and Unionist community, is a landmark in the history of
the period. Its relevance to present-day events cannot be
dismissed, and must be one of the factors which will be central
to any analysis of the political way forward. British government
will ignore it at their peril. Martin Dillon, in the foreword to
Fourteen May Days This book is about ... the fifteen
unprecedented, historic days in which a million British
citizens, the Protestants of Northern Ireland, staged what
amounted to a rebellion against the Crown and won ... Robert
Fisk, in the preface to his book The Point of No Return: The
Strike Which Broke the British in Ulster (Fisk, The Ulster
Workers' Council (UWC) strike took place between W