National Unemployed Workers' Movement

The National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM) was set up in 1921 by members of the Communist Party of Great Britain. It campaigned for better support for the unemployed and against the Means Test. Between 1921 and 1929 it was called the National Unemployed Workers' Committee Movement. Its main organiser in England was Wal Hannington, and in Scotland Harry McShane.

The massive rise in unemployment in the early 1930s resulted in the work of the NUWM becoming more urgent and intense.

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