A revolution is the forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system (Oxford Dictionary). Does it apply to the Winnipeg General Strike in 1919? Was what happened to Winnipeg an attempt of a revolution? This essay will attempt to answer these questions.
General strikes are violent events that are unlikely to be created in a day. They are usually created from many years of bitterness. One of the events that led up to the strike was many of the soldiers that came back from World War I were not able to get their jobs back. The soldiers claimed that the "new immigrants" took their job, and now that they were jobless, the government should do something about it. …
