The Big Flame
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"The Big Flame" is a 1969 BBC television play by socialist playwright Jim Allen, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach. The play tells the story of 10,000 dockworkers occupying the Liverp
The Big Flame
In Place of Strife
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In Place of Strife was a UK Government white paper written in 1969. It was a proposed act to use the law to reduce the power of trade unions in the United Kingdom, but was never passed into law. The t
The Big Flame
…strikes were the subject of political debate at the time, and the government had proposed a ban on unofficial strikes the previous month in the paper In Place of Strife. The last broadcast was on 26 August 1971. The name of the play was later used by a revolutionary socialist organisation founded in Liverpool in 1970…
In Place of Strife (Cmnd 3888)