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Asbestos: campaign against all fears
Co-ordinator of Derbyshire Asbestos Support Team JOANNE GORDON introduces a conference that will bring together campaigners and trade unions to discuss how to raise awareness of the plight of victims and move towards ridding our public buildings and homes of this deadly material
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
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A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
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THE number of asbestos-related disease victims, the injustice they face and the amount of asbestos still in our public buildings, hospitals, schools and homes putting others at risk makes for grim and shocking reading.
Now asbestos victims’ support groups across Yorkshire and the Midlands are coming together to hold a conference for trade unions and other interested organisations to work together to determine how we can campaign for change to prevent and eradicate asbestos-related diseases.
At the same time, we are campaigning for justice for those who are currently suffering from mesothelioma.
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