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Britain's ‘most blacklisted construction worker’ Brian Higgins
POLITICIANS and trade unionists have paid tribute to Britain's “most blacklisted construction worker” Brian Higgins, who died at the weekend.
Mr Higgins, who was from Glasgow but lived in Northampton, was an activist and national figure in former construction union Ucatt, now a part of Unite.
He was one of the major figures in the fight against the blacklisting of trade unionists by construction companies.
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
Mark Harvey pays tribute to a veteran of the days when the London building trade was a hotbed of working-class struggle, a legendary trade unionist, communist and poet