Tribute paid to Shrewsbury 24 campaign at TUC fringe meeting
by Ben Chacko in Brighton
Ricky Tomlinson (second left) with Shrewsbury 24 campaigners deliver a 100,000-signature petition to 10 Downing Street in December 2013
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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.
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