The Grunwick Strike: Struggle, Solidarity, Betrayal and Defeat

Title plus two photos - one of the police lines, one of the pickets with placards

A detailed pamphlet recounting the history of and analysing the Grunwick strike by East African Asian women workers in London, 1976-8, written by "members of the Manchester Marxist-Leninist Group and other Marxist-Leninist who were active in the Manchester Grunwick Strike Support Committee".

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Taken from https://woodsmokeblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/grunwick.pdf

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