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FOI requests reveal that police and government were avid readers of the Morning Star during the landmark Grunwick strike of the late ’70s, finds SOLOMON HUGHES
Grunwick strikers en-route to the House of Commons to lobby MPs prior to presenting a petition to the prime minister James Callaghan
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THERE is an old joke on the left that every socialist newspaper is guaranteed at least two subscriptions. Both from the security services. They need two copies because they need each side of the page for their scrapbook.
Looking through the very large file of papers I got under freedom of information on the 1977 Grunwick strike shows the Home Office and Special Branch were avid readers of the Morning Star.
We now know the Home Office relied heavily on undercover officers who spent years infiltrating left-wing groups.
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