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Eileen Turnbull is the researcher and secretary of the Shrewsbury 24 Campaign, and author of A Very British Conspiracy: the Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice, to be published by Verso on 6 September 2022.
This summer 50 years ago, British building workers, long considered impossible to organise nationally, went out on strike and won the largest single builders’ pay rise ever – but they were met with state persecution and blacklisting.
In the 1970s, 24 construction workers were convicted for their role in a successful strike – the story behind their vindication this week reveals the degree to which the state wages war against the working class.