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MESSAGES of solidarity have poured in from trade unions for striking Shrewsbury building workers who are in court on Wednesday to appeal against their wrongful convictions after a national strike nearly 50 years ago.
The surviving Shrewsbury 24 pickets are fighting to clear their name in a two-day hearing at the Court of Appeal after they were criminalised for going out on strike in 1972.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) general secretary Chris Kitchen said: “We support the Shrewsbury 24 and wish them all the best.
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
KIM JOHNSON MP places the campaign in the context of the history of the working-class battles of the 1980s, and explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow
We are experiencing a wave of organised, often deadly violence targeting migrants from other parts of Africa — but the poorest South Africans reject this hatred, staying true to the spirit of Ubuntu and Pan-African unity, reports NIGEL BRANKEN
The Home Secretary’s recent letter suggests the Labour government may finally deliver on its nine-year manifesto commitment, writes KATE FLANNERY, but we must move quickly: as recently as 2024 Northumbria police destroyed miners’ strike documents


