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Stitched up by building companies aided by a Tory government
The Shrewsbury 24 case was a travesty of justice on a unprecedented scale, writes JOHN GREEN
STATE TERROR: (L to R) Mark Turnbull, Terry Renshaw, Harry Chadwick, Eileen Turnbull, John McKinsie Jones with wife Rita McKinsie Jones, outside the The Royal Courts Of Justice, London, February 2021
ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
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JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
A Very British Conspiracy – The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice
By Eileen Turnbull
Verso £16.99
EILEEN TURNBULL is one of those extraordinary working-class heroes who should be honoured by their country but in our class-riven society rarely are.
In 1972 building workers in Britain went on strike for the first time ever for better pay, safer working conditions and an end to the Lump (zero-hours contracts and lump sum payments) which was rife in the industry.
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JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
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