In 1986, CPSA members elected leading left winger, committed Marxist (p.70) and Militant supporter (p.67) John Macreadie to the position of general secretary. Fighting AusteritySerwotka and Godrich’s elections were the result of deep disquiet among rank-and-file PCS members over the lack of resistance to the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government’s austerity agenda. The 2010 Spending Review laid out a further £7 billion in cuts: 700,000 public-sector jobs would go, including 100,000 civil servants (p.180). This time, between two and three million union members came out on strike, the biggest strike in UK history (p.188). Unions then either agreed the deal or withdrew from the action; the PCS itself called off the action on 12 March (p.191).