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A NEW project aims to bring Paisley’s radical history back to life as part of a £45 million refurbishment of the town’s museum.
About 20,000 people rallied in the Scottish town in September 1819 to show solidarity with workers killed at Manchester’s Peterloo massacre a month prior.
When protesters refused to have banners and flags confiscated by police the peaceful demonstration turned into a battle and the Riot Act was read.
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
Forty years on, TONY DUBBINS revisits the Wapping dispute to argue that Murdoch’s real aim was union-busting – enabled by Thatcherite laws, police violence, compliant unions and a complicit media
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
The government cracking down on something it can’t comprehend and doesn’t want to engage with is a repeating pattern of history, says KEITH FLETT