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PAPERS from the very top of the government reveal the shocking extent to which the offices of the state were waging a propaganda war against the trade union movement.
The Shrewsbury 24 were the convenient scapegoats of a government campaign to undermine the unions and the victims of a politically motivated show trial. What possible justification can there be, 43 years on, for information about it to be withheld on national security grounds?
This debate is about how we were governed and policed in the second half of the last century.
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
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Durham Miners’ Association chair STEPHEN GUY speaks to Ben Chacko about the Reform threat, what’s needed from Labour and why the Big Meeting will never lose its politics
The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
