Vic Turner carried aloft as the Pentonville Five are released From Workers' Liberty magazine 41, July 1997 Part two, on the role of the left, here It is July 1972. With the union leaders safely in talks with Tory Prime Minister] Heath and knuckling under to his Industrial Relations Act (IRA), the Tories now went for the real union power on the docks: the rank and file.
This article was first published in 2010
On 10 February 1972 thousands of workers, acting in solidarity with the miners who were then on strike, surrounded the coke depot at Saltley in Birmingham.
The enormous mass picket stopped all traffic in and out until the bosses gave up and closed the gates of the depot.
As well as being the turning point of the strike, which the miners won, Saltley was a great symbol of what working-class solidarity could do.
This article was first published in 2010
On 10 February 1972 thousands of workers, acting in solidarity with the miners who were then on strike, surrounded the coke depot at Saltley in Birmingham.
The enormous mass picket stopped all traffic in and out until the bosses gave up and closed the gates of the depot.
As well as being the turning point of the strike, which the miners won, Saltley was a great symbol of what working-class solidarity could do.
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