Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… demoralisation. By the time mineworkers went on strike in 1946, they, and the whole black trade union movement were in … could no longer be held back) moved into acÂtion only in 1946, when the tide of mass struggle had begun to ebb. The … organise this and it never materialised. The defeat of the 1946 strike further demoralised workers in the trade unions, …