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SUMMARY:Shrewsbury 24: Hear Their Story\, Celebrate Their Victory
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nOnline meeting to celebrate and learn from the significant victory of the ‘Shrewsbury 24’ in quashing their almost 50-year-old convictions.\n\nSpeakers: \nRicky Tomlinson (Shrewsbury Picket and jailed trade unionist) \nJohn McDonnell (Labour MP) \nDave Smith (Blacklist Support Group) \nPiers Marquis and Annabel Timan (Doughty Street Chambers barristers) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Shrewsbury 24 were pickets wrongfully arrested and convicted for their participation in the national building workers’ strike of 1972. \nFor years afterwards\, many were subjected to blacklisting and struggled to find work.It’s now known that blacklists were maintained with the illegal collusion of every constabulary’s Special Branch. \nThe Shrewsbury 24’s campaign for justice was spied on by officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Special Demonstration Squad. \nOn Tuesday 23rd March 2021\, the Court of Appeal made the following judgement in the case of our clients Ricky Tomlinson\, Arthur Murray and the Shrewsbury 24: \n “It follows that under Ground 1\, the convictions of all the appellants are unsafe.  \n Their appeals are allowed and all the verdicts in relation to them are quashed.” (pt.99) \nThe convictions of the Shrewsbury 24 have been quashed. As they walked from court they were – as they have always been – innocent men. \nWe say they are victims of police corruption\, of a political trial\, and of a Conservative Government – who at the time were looking to take revenge against the trade union movement. \nJoin us online on Wednesday 31 March at 6.30pm to analyse and discuss the historical lessons to learn from this courageous struggle. \nSpeakers: \nRicky Tomlinson (Shrewsbury Picket and jailed Trade Unionist) \nJohn McDonnell (Labour MP) \nDave Smith (Blacklist Support Group) \nPiers Marquis and Annabel Timan (Doughty Street Chambers barristers) \nThe event is free and online. Register for tickets. \n\n\n\n\nShare this:FacebookTwitterTumblrEmailMoreLinkedInRedditPinterestPocketPrint
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