Blacklisting: A British Tradition

By: Marcus Barnett

The latest report on blacklisting shows how serious the establishment is about undermining our movement

National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM) Hunger March seen here making its way through Uxbridge in 1934. (Photo by Mirrorpix / Getty Images.)

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For as long as the workers’ movement in this country has attempted to make people’s lives better, so too has the Great British tradition of blacklisting attempted to ruin the lives of those who advocated for their workmates. It has yielded some unexpected results; the author of the quintessential English folk ballad ‘Dirty Old Town’, […]

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For as long as the workers’ movement in this country has attempted to make people’s lives better, so too has the Great British tradition of blacklisting attempted to ruin the lives of those who advocated for their workmates. It has yielded some unexpected results; the author of the quintessential English folk ballad ‘Dirty Old Town’, […]

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For as long as the workers’ movement in this country has attempted to make people’s lives better, so too has the Great British tradition of blacklisting attempted to ruin the lives of those who advocated for their workmates. It has yielded some unexpected results; the author of the quintessential English folk ballad ‘Dirty Old Town’, […]

For as long as the workers’ movement in this country has attempted to make people’s lives better, so too has the Great British tradition of blacklisting attempted to ruin the lives of those who advocated for their workmates. It has yielded some unexpected results; the author of the quintessential English folk ballad ‘Dirty Old Town’, […]

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