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'Events on that night 140 years ago kickstarted a robust socialist movement in the city that still endures'.
Panos Theodoropoulos, teaching fellow at University of Leicester, argues here’s what unions should do to support migrant workers.
In the late 1970s and 80s, I worked as a telephonist for the General Post Office, a public corporation which became British Telecom. It was considered a good gig, especially for a young working class girl from a social housing estate.
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