From Chartists and Suffragettes to Irish republicans and today’s Palestine activists, the treatment of hunger strikers exposes a consistent pattern in how the British state represses those it deems political prisoners, says KEITH FLETT
Communicate, communicate, communicate
In the third of a series of weekly articles taking a reflective approach to issues in our current situation, DOUG NICHOLLS, GFTU general secretary, looks at how we are and have communicated and the dangers of the culture of violence for our children
WHEN I was first elected as a trade union general secretary in the 1980s, our national means of communications were a Gestetner machine and Lettraset.
I was forever messing up the stencils with mistakes on the manual typewriter and splattered with ink.
The trade union movement itself was established long before WhatsApp and Zoom, phones, trains and even bicycles.
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