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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.
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers
