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Jeremy Corbyn joins striking Port of Liverpool workers
SOCIALIST Campaign Group MPs and RMT leader Mick Lynch crowded onto the Port of Liverpool dockers’ picket line in the morning drizzle today.
Mr Lynch said to cheers that struggles like the dockers’ showed “the working class is back” and said Unite’s record of successful strikes was inspiring other unions in struggle.
Liverpool West Derby MP Ian Byrne told the dockers, who have been on pickets since September 20, that they had the “solidarity of the city and the world,” pointing to the stream of cars and lorries honking in support and the banners from dock workers’ unions in other countries.
Megapicket to shut down Birmingham’s refuse sites
Four decades on, the Wapping dispute stands as both a heroic act of resistance and a decisive moment in the long campaign to break trade union power. Lord JOHN HENDY KC looks back on the events of 1986
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says