Operation Solidarity Explained

The Operation Solidarity (also known as the Solidarity Crisis) refers to a protest movement in British Columbia, Canada in 1983 that emerged in response to the Social Credit (Socred) government's economic policy of austerity and anti-union legislation. A mass coalition, the Solidarity Coalition, was formed, composed of community organizations and trade unions, which many expected would culminate in a general strike.

References

• Defying conventional wisdom: political movements and popular contention against North American free trade, Jeffrey McKelvey Ayres, University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. 50–53
• The West beyond the West: a history of British Columbia, Jean Barman, University of Toronto Press, 1991 (rev. ed. 1998), pp. 327–328,
• The Solidarity Coalition, in The New Reality (Vancouver: New Star Books), eds. Warren Magnusson, William K. Carroll, Charles Doyle, Monika Langer, and R.B.J. Walker, eds., pp 94–114.