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BLACKLISTED construction workers joined a picket outside a key inquiry hearing yesterday.
As the undercover policing inquiry prepared to hear pleas from the police for further delays, rank and file trade unionists called for the cover names of the spycops to be revealed.
In 2009 a secret blacklist of builders was exposed after a raid by the government’s Information Commissioner, implicating major firms including Kier, Costain, Balfour Beatty and Sir Robert McAlpine.
US General Stanley McChrystal has been invited to advise on creating a ‘team of teams’ for healthcare transformation. His credentials? He previously ran interrogation bases where Iraqis were stripped naked and beaten, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
BEN CHACKO reports on the struggles against sexism, racism and the brutish British state that featured at Matchwomen’s Festival this year
