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The trade unionist battle that beat a Tory government
ROGER SUTTON writes ahead of tomorrow’s 45th anniversary celebration of the Pentonville Five’s release
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JOHN GREEN argues that the spreading practice of closing bank account without proof of criminality is an infringement of an elementary human right
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IAN SINCLAIR looks at how we are made to swallow, without question, the porkies fed to us by the mass media
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IN THE fight against today’s anti-union laws and other battles to defend public services and jobs, the Pentonville Five victory of 1972 is regularly cited as an example of how workers can win.
Its importance is increasingly being recognised in analysis of our history. It recognises that, like all our struggles, it was built on the back of years of hard organising and battling.
But it is also important to understand what really happened, it’s essential rank-and-file nature, what the ruling class learnt from it and how Pentonville can give us practical inspiration today.
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