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Morning Star editor Ben Chacko interviews DOUG NICHOLLS, Britain’s longest-serving trade union general secretary and probably one of only a handful of trade unionists at TUC Congress this year who was at the 1988 congress when Jacques Delors delivered his infamous speech to gain trade union support for the European Union’s new integration plans and single market
Doug Nicholls, general secretary of the GFTU
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ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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WHAT do you recall about the context in which the 1988 TUC met?
The once workshop of the world had been closed down. The shock and awe of the destruction of industry and coal and their leadership unions was unprecedented in world history.
Steel, engineering, docks, shipbuilding, print — all savaged in the wanton act of vandalism of Thatcher.
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