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Outstanding activist: Hank Roberts
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WHILE the trade union movement is full of larger-than-life figures, Hank Roberts is certainly one of a kind.
How many other trade union leaders could claim to have stolen a firearm, drunk bleach, hospitalised several people, lived in a tent for six months to halt privatisation of a school, appeared before a High Court judge at the Old Bailey and then been elected president of their union, subsequently securing one of the most significant trade union amalgamations in recent history?
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A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
