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Timely tribute to a working-class hero
A great new documentary on union leader Jack Jones is essential viewing for old and young alike, says JOHN HAYLETT
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Unsung Hero
Directed by Sol Papadopoulos
JACK JONES was fated to be a militant trade unionist and socialist, being christened James Larkin Jones in tribute to Liverpool-born Irish labour movement colossus Big Jim Larkin.
But the stimulus to the late transport union T&GWU leader’s lifetime of struggle was the poverty-stricken existence into which he was born, before following his father and brothers into the organised resistance to capitalist brutality.
His life story, encapsulated in Hurricane Film's Unsung Hero, draws on archive film — including the sight of cattle being driven outside Liverpool's St George’s Hall, the site of so many massive working-class mobilisations — and personal testimonies. It will be premiered on Friday in his home city’s Philharmonic Hall.
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