Think global, act local! Trades councils are the place workers and unemployed trade unionists, in local and national forums, can come together to pass resolutions and plan actions; in workplaces and on the streets; to change laws, change minds, show solidarity, lead and inspire; encourage demonstrations, occupations and industrial actions; to provide confidence and political tools to working people. Union leaders have tended to constrict these assemblies while radicals have often wanted to further empower them. Trades councils- histories have often been marginalised, hidden from the very localities from which they sprang - until now.
Come Together explores trades councils in Britain from 1920 to 1950 - their role in the General Strike of 1926, unemployment responses in the 1930s, the impact of World War II, their interactions with British communists - with lessons for today-s activists.
