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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

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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