Jack Dromey and the Grunwick strike
Birmingham Erdington Labour MP Jack Dromey has died unexpectedly aged 73. Long a Transport and General Workers’ Union full-timer before he became an MP in 2010, before that Dromey played a central and generally positive role in one of the most important working-class struggles in British history – the 1976-8 Grunwick strike . The book about the strike Dromey co-authored, Grunwick: the Workers’ Story , is very much worth reading. In the 1970s he had CP-type politics and was close to the CP, but was a genuine class-struggle militant. Subsequently he moved a long way to the right. As a T&G...