On this day in 1978, one of the first strikes of the British "Winter of Discontent" began when 15,000 Ford workers, mostly from the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), began an unofficial strike.

The Winter of Discontent took place during 1978-79 in the United Kingdom, characterized by widespread strikes from both private and public sector trade unions. Some of these industrial disputes caused great public inconvenience, exacerbated by the coldest winter in 16 years in which severe storms isolated many remote areas of the country.

On September 22nd, 1978, one of the first strikes of the "Winter of Discontent" began when 15,000 Ford workers, mostly from the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), began an unofficial strike.

The number of participants later grew to 57,000. As the months progressed, workers from multiple industries went on strike, including lorry drivers, garbage collectors, and gravediggers. It was the largest UK labor stoppage since 1926.

The Winter was a disaster for the incumbent Labour Party. The magazine Socialist Worker quoted one council worker as saying "We had to strike because Labour betrayed us".

The Labour Party was swept out of power in the 1979 election, leading to the premiership of Margaret Thatcher.

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  • Cromalin [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    they live, in the mouth of madness, big trouble in little china, and escape from new york are his best outside of those 2 imo, but just about everything he did pre-escape from la is amazing

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        2 years ago

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      • Cromalin [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        i mentioned that, it's one of my favorites of his? it's not the scariest film ever, but it's a really effective thriller

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      1 year ago

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          • Cromalin [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            maybe, but i only really started watching movies intentionally last year. so maybe not

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                  • Cromalin [she/her]
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                    2 years ago

                    kind of? it's about a horror author (very clearly based on stephen king, his name is sutter cane, he sets all his stories in a small town in new england, the font on his book covers is the stephen king font) who goes missing, and a private eye is hired to investigate. weird stuff starts to happens that's definitely lovecraft adjacent, all about sanity and seeing things man was not meant to know.

                    it's part of his apocalypse trilogy, along with the thing and prince of darkness. not an actual trilogy, just 3 movies about apocalyptic events that all have a little bit of lovecraft in the dna. (the thing is based on a short story that was obviously riffing on at the mountains of madness)