Struggle Or Starve: Working-Class Unity in Belfast's 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots

Sean Mitchell

Struggle Or Starve: Working-Class Unity in Belfast's 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Country
United States
Published
13 June 2017
Pages
250
ISBN
9781608466788

Struggle Or Starve: Working-Class Unity in Belfast’s 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots

Sean Mitchell

In October 1932, the streets of Belfast were gripped by vicious and widespread rioting that lasted the best part of a week. Thousands of unarmed demonstrators fought extended pitched battles against heavily-armed police. Unemployed workers and, indeed, whole working-class communities, dug trenches and built barricades to hold off the police assault. The event became known as the Outdoor Relief Riot-one of a very few instances in which class sympathy managed to trump sectarian loyalties in a city famous for its divisions.

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