A Very British Conspiracy: The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice

The story of the campaign for justice for the 24 building workers wrongly prosecuted by the state in the 1970s

When a group of North Wales building workers were put on trial for picketing-related offences during the first and only national building workers strike in Britain, it not only had a profound and lifelong impact upon them and their families. It also was a turning point for halting the growth of trade unionism in the building industry, from which it has never recovered.

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