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Background imageCrisis Collection: Leyland Convoy

Leyland Convoy
3rd October 1919: A convoy of Leyland mobile car repair shops during the rail strike. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: All-Out

All-Out
1919: Police strike meeting at Tower Hill, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Paddington Station

Paddington Station
October 1918: Deserted Paddington railway station in London during the rail strike. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Transport Strikers

Transport Strikers
28th July 1912: A procession of transport strikers cross Tower Bridge in London, on their way to a rally in Southwark Park. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Belfast Strikes

Belfast Strikes
1st July 1907: A Belfast quayside as the Irish army is sent in, in an attempt to end the dock strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Strikers Protest

Strikers Protest
1st July 1907: Trollies loaded with paper, upset by the striking Belfast dockers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Army At Tonypandy

Army At Tonypandy
1910: Military tents at the colliery during the Tonypandy strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Lisbon Revolution

Lisbon Revolution
1910: Armed men behind barricades in Lisbon during a conflict which ended with the forced abdication of Manuel II. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Coal Wagons

Coal Wagons
29th August 1907: Coal trucks awaiting shipment from Grimsby Brickpit Sidings, during the great coal crisis. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Workers Protest

Workers Protest
1st February 1914: Trafalgar Square is packed with demonstrating workers from the Royal Ordnance Factories listening to speakers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Dock Strike

Dock Strike
1st July 1907: A group of 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment soldiers at Belfast dock during the dock strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Roof Travelling

Roof Travelling
circa 1922: A loaded train with passengers on the roof ready to leave Tashkent station during the Russian famine. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Flat Cap Crowd

Flat Cap Crowd
31st May 1912: Striking London transport workers listen to an address from the English Trade Union Leader Ben Tillett on Tower Hill. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Strike Tanks

Strike Tanks
10th May 1926: Armoured cars and troops at Hyde Park Corner, London, preparing to escort Londons great food convoy at 6am on the seventh day of the General Strike. (Photo by E)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Women Fire-Fighters

Women Fire-Fighters
March 1916: Members of the Women of the Fire Brigade put a fire escape into position. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Food Escorts

Food Escorts
8th May 1926: An armoured vehicle escorting food wagons passing through Oxford Circus, London, during the General Strike. (Photo by Davies/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Horse De Comabat

Horse De Comabat
July 1907: A traction engine rendered Horse de combat by strikers during the Belfast strike by dockers and the Royal Irish Constabulary. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: After The Strike

After The Strike
15th May 1926: Resumption of work by dockers at London Bridge, after the settlement of the 1926 General Strike. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Back To Work

Back To Work
15th May 1926: Dockers unloading ships at London Bridge three days after the end of the General Strike. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Petrol Wagon

Petrol Wagon
7th May 1926: Mounted police escort a petrol wagon along St Georges Road, Southwark, London, during the General Strike. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Tram In Street

Tram In Street
14th May 1926: A London County Council tram travelling in a street in London during the General Strike. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Food Convoy

Food Convoy
9th May 1926: A crowd watches as a food convoy guarded by armoured cars drives down India Dock Road in east London, during the 1926 General Strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Johannesburg Riot

Johannesburg Riot
1925: The tank which played a prominent role in the Johannesburg rebellion, where union unrest erupted in the Rand Revolt, in which white workers

Background imageCrisis Collection: Great Sunday Food Convoy

Great Sunday Food Convoy
A crowd watches as a food convoy guarded by armoured cars drives down India Dock Road in east London en route to the Hyde Park depot, on the 6th day of the 1926 General Strike, 9th May 1926

Background imageCrisis Collection: Monumental Arch, Palmyra, Syria

Monumental Arch, Palmyra, Syria
Sunset at the Unesco World heritage Site. Before the Syrian conflict started in 2011, more than 150, 000 tourists visited the city of Palmyra every year

Background imageCrisis Collection: Rubbish Pile

Rubbish Pile
8th February 1979: Piles of rubbish near Charing Cross Hospital in Hammersmith, London, during the dustmens strike. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Police Line

Police Line
circa 1980: Police forming a line in front of demonstrators at Llanwern Steel. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: So Near

So Near
1st August 1943: These two women and their children travelled all day from west Kensington, London, to the East Coast, only to find when they got there that they had to look at the sea through barbed

Background imageCrisis Collection: Ship Building Strike

Ship Building Strike
1st April 1957: A vessel under construction at the Burrow-in-Furness shipyard where work has stopped during a strike. Original Publication

Background imageCrisis Collection: Barricade In Paris

Barricade In Paris
A barricade at the Porte Maillot during the revolt by supporters of the Paris Commune. The Arc de Triomphe is in the background. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Barricade

Barricade
18th March 1848: A barricade erected in the Rue St Martin, Paris, during fighting beteen moderate and radical Republicans during the first few months of the Second Republic

Background imageCrisis Collection: Vengeful God Makes Good On Promise

Vengeful God Makes Good On Promise
The wicked struggle to save themselves from the flood unleashed by Yahweh on the people of the Earth in an engraving by Fisher, Son, & Co

Background imageCrisis Collection: Postwar Paris

Postwar Paris
Paris shoppers queue for food at a small vegetable stand, 1947. Full rubbish bins line the street, unemptied during the Paris garbage collectors strike. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Paris Traffic

Paris Traffic
A traffic jam in Paris during a strike by public transport workers, circa 1935. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Safer Streets

Safer Streets
A line of policemen in beards striking terror into the hearts of the local children, entitled, The Police wear Beards and Moustaches - Panic Among The Street Boys

Background imageCrisis Collection: Dock Strike

Dock Strike
A labour leader addresses dockers during the London dock strike of 1889. Painting by Dudley Hardy (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Crimean War

Crimean War
Fighting in Sebastopol during the Crimean war, circa 1855. Detail of Franz Roubauds 1904 painting The Siege of Sevastopol (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Coal Queuing During a Strike

Coal Queuing During a Strike
Full-length image of people queuing up to buy coal during a coal strike, possibly New York City. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: City Commuters

City Commuters
5th October 1954: City workers crossing London Bridge on their way to work on the third day of a bus strike. (Photo by Derek Berwin/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageCrisis Collection: Mutinous Crew

Mutinous Crew
circa 1912: Crowds gather to watch the mutinous crew of the SS Olympus going into court. The Olympus was the sister ship to the Titanic, and the crew refused to sail following the disaster



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