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The dirty tricks of the Shrewsbury trials expose the dark heart of the radical 1970s - Paul Mason

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Article by economist Paul Mason about the 1972 UK builders' strike that led to the Shrewsbury conspiracy trial. Reproduced here not as an endorsement of Mason's politics, but an interesting insight into worker radicalism in the UK in the 1970s.

Between 1972 and 1974, Britain could easily have seen either a workers’ revolution or a military coup.

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