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Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Shrewsbury Pickets Lobby Of Parliament

UCATT General Secretary Alan Ritchie will be speaking at a rally in support of the Justice For The Shrewsbury Pickets Campaign.

Details of the lobby and meeting are below:

Thursday 12 March 2009

Assemble on the College Green opposite the House of Lords at 12.30

· For an Inquiry
· Expose MI5 involvement
· Release secret evidence

MEETING (after lobby)
Westminster Hall at 3.30 pm

What really lay behind the Shrewsbury trials? Were the jailings of the pickets used as a warning to other workers? Who were the real conspirators? What lessons can be drawn for today’s struggles?

Speakers: Alan Ritchie UCATT General Secretary, Arthur Scargill, jailed picket Ricky Tomlinson, John Hendy QC, Chairman: Jeremy Corbyn.