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THE Grenfell Tower disaster must not lead to another Establishment cover-up, Hillsborough campaigners told the Unison conference yesterday.
They predicted that the establishment would try to close ranks, as it did after the Hillsborough football stadium disaster in 1989 and the alleged police cover-up over attacks on striking miners at Orgreave in 1984.
But the campaigners urged those affected by the tragedy to stick together, saying that the truth would come out eventually.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
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
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