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An estimated 120,000 to 250,000 "kill the bill" protesters went on strike against the 1971 Industrial Relations Act in London. [ 9 ] The Vehicle & General insurance company collapsed leaving 500,000 motorists uninsured.
The administrative task of enlisting the support of Christian churches and denominations throughout the UK was a colossal one, as indeed was the necessity for public relations with the press and the general public. The committee and many local volunteers were occupied with this throughout the first half of 1971.
The Gay Liberation Front in the UK was formed in 1970 in response to the formation of the GLF in the US, which was established after the Stonewall riots in 1969. Prior to the formation of GLF in the UK, the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) had been the primary focus for the campaign for gay rights; CHE focused on lobbying government for specific legal reforms, while GLF campaigned for ...
Student protests which escalated into a nationwide general strike which halted the French economy and continued with wildcat strikes after the Grenelle agreements granted higher wages, leading to fears of a revolution against Charles de Gaulle; ended with Gaullist counter-demonstrations and a vote of confidence from the National Assembly. 1971-72
The Industrial Relations Act 1971 (c. 72) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, since repealed. It was based on proposals outlined in the governing Conservative Party's manifesto for the 1970 general election. The goal was to stabilize industrial relations by forcing concentration of bargaining power and responsibility in the ...
Protesting against George W. Bush in 2008. This is a list of protests and protest movements in the United Kingdom.Protest in the UK has concerned issues such as suffrage in the 19th and early 20th centuries, parliamentary reform from the Chartists to the present day, poverty, wages and working conditions, fuel prices, war, human rights, immigration (both for and against), fathers' rights ...
1971 May Day protests against the Vietnam War; N. Non-cooperation movement (1971) W. Winter Soldier Investigation This page was last edited on 8 October 2020, at 18: ...
2010: UK student protests against increases in student fees and public sector cuts. 2011: Anti-cuts protest in London against government public spending cuts. 2011: England riots, initially in London, following the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham; 2017: Rioting outside Forest Gate police station following the Death of Edson Da Costa.