CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Stitched up by building companies aided by a Tory government
The Shrewsbury 24 case was a travesty of justice on a unprecedented scale, writes JOHN GREEN
STATE TERROR: (L to R) Mark Turnbull, Terry Renshaw, Harry Chadwick, Eileen Turnbull, John McKinsie Jones with wife Rita McKinsie Jones, outside the The Royal Courts Of Justice, London, February 2021
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
A Very British Conspiracy – The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice
By Eileen Turnbull
Verso £16.99
EILEEN TURNBULL is one of those extraordinary working-class heroes who should be honoured by their country but in our class-riven society rarely are.
In 1972 building workers in Britain went on strike for the first time ever for better pay, safer working conditions and an end to the Lump (zero-hours contracts and lump sum payments) which was rife in the industry.
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Labour movement history in Britain shows workers secured reforms through collective pressure and political representation, rather than being gifted from above, writes KEITH FLETT
The General Strike exposed the power of the working class — and the limits of its leadership, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
NICK TROY lauds the young staff at a hotel chain and cinema giant who are ready to take on the bosses for their rights
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