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Students supporting cleaners on strike at a London university have been attacked by scab workers brought in to break the action.
Cleaners hired by contractor ISS became violent with students holding a sleepover at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) on Monday.
A dozen students voted to extend a solidarity meeting into an overnight occupation in order to stop scab labour coming onto the premises before workers began their picket at 4am.
JOHN LANG recalls how Murdoch used scabbing electricians and even devised a fake newspaper to force a confrontation with printers – then sacked them all
Forty years on, TONY DUBBINS revisits the Wapping dispute to argue that Murdoch’s real aim was union-busting – enabled by Thatcherite laws, police violence, compliant unions and a complicit media
