Justice for the 37 Cammell Laird strikers
Striking to keep the Birkenhead shipyard open and save a community from devastation, 37 workers went into occupation. Outrageously, they were jailed for their legitimate action — MICK WHITLEY MP writes now is the time to clear their names
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IN June 1984, the National Union of Mineworkers entered the fourth month of its historic year-long struggle with the Thatcher government.
A few weeks later a massive police attack on the Orgreave picket was unleashed. The prisons started to fill with pickets. Industrial action was being branded a crime.
Thatcher had vowed to take on and defeat any group of workers who opposed her wave of deindustrialisation and the jobs massacre that was its inevitable consequence.
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