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This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
Pit Props: Music, International Solidarity and the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike
Edited by Granville Williams
(Campaign for Press and
Broadcasting Freedom, £9.99)
THIS book is a comprehensive and inspirational examination of mainly unreported aspects of the most courageous industrial dispute of the second half of the 20th century.
The third in a series about the strike produced by the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, it’s edited by the organisation’s northern director, Granville Williams.
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