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The National Unemployed Workers' Movement was a British organisation set up in 1921 by members of the Communist Party of Great Britain. It aimed at drawing...

The Unemployed Workers Movement (UWM) was a socialist activist organisation operating in Australia during the Great Depression. It advocated for expanded...

unemployed to London, termed "hunger marches", had taken place since the early 1920s, mainly organised by the National Unemployed Workers' Movement (NUWM)...

Unemployed Workers' Organisation was an organisation of unemployed workers founded in London in 1923. It was a breakaway from the National Unemployed...

Britain and National Organiser of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, from its formation in 1921 to its end in 1939, when he became National Organiser...

anti-fascist demonstrators from the small local Communist Party and National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM). Stockton was hit hard by the economic recession following...

Police 1932: The National Hunger March ended in rioting after the police confiscated the petition of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement 1936: The Battle...

over a means test was among the factors giving rise to the National Unemployed Workers' Movement in the United Kingdom. Today, means-tested benefits—meaning...

Britain in 1936 and also joined its front organisation, the National Unemployed Workers' Movement. After the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 he joined...

Unemployed Workers' Organisation (UWO), modelled closely on the IWW as an alternative to the CPGB's "reformist" National Unemployed Workers' Movement...

communist-led National Unemployed Workers' Movement (NUWM). With unemployment at 2,750,000, the 1932 National Unemployed Workers' Movement organised "Great...

line." Wollongong Out of Workers Union Unemployed Councils Workers Alliance of America National Unemployed Workers' Movement Schneiders, Ben (18 October...

protestors tried to march down to the city centre, led by the National Unemployed Workers Movement. Throughout the protest, police showed heavy resistance,...

short-lived National Unemployed Workers Movement at this time which despite its name was actually more concerned with unemployed youth than workers thrown...

During the Great Depression he began to organise for the National Unemployed Workers' Movement. After a protest in 1932 for which he was imprisoned in...

Orwell also established a network of contacts through the National Unemployed Workers' Movement. One of these NUWM contacts was Jack Hilton, a working-class...

and became involved in the National Unemployed Workers' Movement. While in London he was often seen selling the Daily Worker outside Belsize Park tube...

Auckland Unemployed Workers' Rights Centre was founded, at an assembly of unemployed workers, Auckland University students, WCL members, community workers, Auckland...

over 300, and was heavily involved in October 1934 with the National Unemployed Workers Movement county march to Forfar, to lobby the County Council; contingents...

Communist Party. He was instrumental in setting up the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, and in 1937 he joined the British Battalion of the International...