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Thread #105162   Message #4025533
Posted By: GUEST,Pseudonymous
30-Dec-19 - 03:37 PM
Thread Name: 2007 Ewan MacColl Bio - Class Act
Subject: RE: 2007 Ewan MacColl Bio - Class Act
I know that MacColl did a lot for trade union activity including the miners. Having acknowledged that, I was taken aback to read that he did not do anything about the Grunwick dispute, which was a high profile and important one. Harker thinks that this was because MacColl liked to support stuff he thought was more muscular manual work, with colliers as a prime example. I did think that this was quite a surprising omission on his part. I think Seeger did write something relating to this, for which all credit to her.