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KARL MARX noted that the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living — and that certainly seems to be the case with current Tory attitudes to industrial action on the cost of living as Rishi Sunak promises yet more anti-union legislation.
The Murdoch-owned Times newspaper, for example, has opined on numerous occasions about trade unions, strikes and what union members must do — primarily stop them and get on with their work.
Yet nowhere in the Times commentaries, or indeed those of Tory ministers and MPs, is recognition of what the Thatcher governments did on trade union law.
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