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STRIKING workers are inspiring millions to demand better, the leader of the bakers’ union told the annual Silk Mill march and rally in Derby on Saturday.
Hundreds of trade unionists from across the East Midlands joined the annual festival to commemorate the Derby lockout of 1833-34, which led to the formation of the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union, the first national trade union with revolutionary intent.
The speakers included general secretary of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union Sarah Woolley, GMB senior regional organiser Gill Ogilvie, Fraser McGuire of Unite Hospitality branch and Derby RMTchair Neil Wilkinson.
The General Strike exposed the power of the working class — and the limits of its leadership, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
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
On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose unresolved injustices still demand redress today, writes ANN FIELD
A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE