The Operation Solidarity (also known as the Solidarity Crisis) refers to a protest movement in

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in 1983 that emerged in response to the

Social Credit Social credit is a distributive philosophy of political economy developed by C. H. Douglas. Douglas attributed economic downturns to discrepancies between the cost of goods and the compensation of the workers who made them. To combat what he ...

(Socred) government's economic policy of austerity and anti-union legislation. A mass coalition, the

Solidarity Coalition ''Solidarity'' is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. It is based on class collaboration.''Merriam Webster'', http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictio ...

, was formed, composed of community organizations and trade unions, which many expected would culminate in a

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References

''Defying conventional wisdom: political movements and popular contention against North American free trade'', Jeffrey McKelvey Ayres

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, 1998, pp. 50–53
''The West beyond the West: a history of British Columbia'', Jean Barman

, 1991 (rev. ed. 1998), pp. 327–328, *''The Solidarity Coalition'', in ''The New Reality'' (Vancouver:

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), eds. Warren Magnusson, William K. Carroll, Charles Doyle, Monika Langer, and R.B.J. Walker, eds., pp 94–114. 1983 in British Columbia 1983 protests Labour disputes in British Columbia 1983 labor disputes and strikes {{BritishColumbia-poli-stub