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Blacklisting exposed, 10 years on
Back in 2009, to suggest that the police might collude with corporations to target union activists would have got you labelled a conspiracy theorist. Now the police have admitted it is true, writes PHIL CHAMBERLAIN
As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
“WE’RE not aware of it existing. If unions have evidence of malpractice by an employer they need to share it. Blacklisting is not the practice of a good employer.”
The now defunct Construction Confederation spokesman was right in 2008 when he said that blacklisting was not the practice of a good employer. But it was certainly a common practice.
A year later a former Greater Manchester police officer working for the Information Commissioner knocked on the door of a discreet building in the West Midlands and found incontrovertible evidence of systematic blacklisting.
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