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The Sun - spoof newspaper from the Wapping strike, 1986

Short spoof issue of The Sun newspaper produced by anarchists to support the News International printers strike at Wapping in 1986.

Submitted by Steven. on November 5, 2008
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Kaze no Kae

13 years 2 months ago

In reply to Welcome by libcom.org

lmfao, whats all this about Murdoch and donkeys? :P

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