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Labour leader Ed Miliband was forced to apologise yesterday after posing with a copy of the Sun newspaper in the year of the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.
Mr Miliband was photographed with a special edition of the Murdoch rag being distributed free to mark the start of the England football team’s World Cup campaign.
The paper has been boycotted on Merseyside since it published appalling smears regarding the 1989 disaster in which 96 people lost their lives, accusing Liverpool fans of robbing the dead.
Enduring myths blame print unions for their own destruction – but TONY BURKE argues that the Wapping dispute was a calculated assault by Murdoch on organised labour, which reshaped Britain’s media landscape and casts a long shadow over trade union rights today
On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose unresolved injustices still demand redress today, writes ANN FIELD
