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Ricky Tomlinson (second left) with Shrewsbury 24 campaigners deliver a 100,000-signature petition to 10 Downing Street in December 2013
TRIBUTE was paid to the Shrewsbury 24 Campaign at an emotional fringe meeting today.
Speakers called for campaign researcher Eileen Turnbull’s book on the pickets, A Very British Conspiracy, to be given the widest publicity.
The story of the 24 building workers framed after peacefully picketing in Shrewsbury and Telford on September 6 1972, six of whom went to jail, is one that shows “the very best of our movement and the very worst of the British state,” PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said.
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
Durham Miners’ Association general secretary ALAN MARDGHUM speaks to Ben Chacko ahead of Gala Day 2025
