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DOWNING CANS AND SMASHING BOTTLES by Matthew Lee

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A5, 28 pages, Black white printing, Saddle stitched, Softcover, 2025 When one thinks of the archetypal militant worker, the milk carrier (commonly known as a "milkman") probably isn’t the first that comes to mind. Yet throughout the first half of the 20th Century, milk carriers in Forest Hill and Catford would wage militant struggles against dairy capital that would spread across the whole of London. They went on wildcat and sympathy strikes, slow downs, confronted strikebreakers, smashed milk bottles, and blocked depots. They challenged their bosses, who forced them to work seven days a week,

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