In Defence of the Picket Line
The Shrewsbury 24 case lifts the lid on one of the ways the British state has disempowered the working class since the 1970s – a war on the most effective tool available to trade unions: the picket line.
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Diarmaid Kelliher
Diarmaid Kelliher is a postdoctoral researcher and trade unionist at the University of Glasgow. His book Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike will be published by Routledge in May.
Scottish Labour’s Attack on Democracy
Hollie Cameron, a socialist standing for Glasgow Kelvin, has been removed as a Labour candidate after comments about Indyref2 – it’s yet another sign that the party is clamping down on dissent.