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Thank you to my old friend, ‘Bick,’ for doing what was right
JEREMY CORBYN pays tribute to the late Rodney Bickerstaffe, former general secretary of Unison
The late Rodney Bickerstaffe

RODNEY BICKERSTAFFE was an outstanding trade unionist, a great socialist and a committed internationalist as well as a warm and fun loving friend. 

I have never forgotten speaking at a 100,000-strong rally at the opening of the World Social Forum in Mumbai in 2004. 

It was a huge affair with speakers from across the world such as Arundhati Roy, Shirin Ebadi and Mustafa Barghouti, but as I started to speak, I noticed a hand frantically waving at me from the back of the crowd. 

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