Britain does not need a general election or a general strike. What Britain needs is a general uprising

‘Who Governs Britain?’ was the election slogan embraced by then Conservative Prime Minister Ted Heath in 1974, when he called a snap general election with the sole purpose of facing down an increasingly militant and assertive trade union movement, particularly the NUM minters union, at a time of deep economic and social turmoil.

Heath lost and the Tories have never forgotten it, reflected in Thatcher’s war against the unions, particularly the NUM in the 1980s, and now today with this open attack on the right and freedom of public sector workers to withdraw their labour in the midst of an industrial dispute with the passage of the government’s new anti-strike legislation. Said legislation has been introduced by the Tories as part of a class struggle that has grown ever fiercer these past few months, during which the likes of Mick Lynch of the RMT (Rail, Maritime and Transport union) have inspired a resurgence of class struggle that has succeeded in breaking throw the fog of identity politics that has done much to keep the British working class mired in false consciousness.

It was always rich for this rancid and reactionary Tory political establishment to accuse former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of trying to drag Britain back to the 1970s when…