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BLACKLISTED workers have “wholeheartedly” endorsed Labour’s pledges to end blacklisting and other injustices against workers.
The Blacklist Support Group (BSG) has welcomed the party’s manifesto commitments to hold public inquiries into the history of blacklisting and to ensure that all future undercover policing requires judicial permission.
It has also welcomed Labour’s plans to ensure that bereaved families and survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire will have full confidence in the second phase of the inquiry and to release all papers relating to the Shrewsbury 24 and Cammell Laird 37 miscarriages of justice into the public domain.
Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
KIM JOHNSON MP places the campaign in the context of the history of the working-class battles of the 1980s, and explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow
The Home Secretary’s recent letter suggests the Labour government may finally deliver on its nine-year manifesto commitment, writes KATE FLANNERY, but we must move quickly: as recently as 2024 Northumbria police destroyed miners’ strike documents
