How the heroines and heroes of Grunwick lost
20 August was the 45th anniversary of the start of one of the most important struggles in British working-class history, the two-year strike by Grunwick film-processing workers in North West London. This is the second of two parts of an abridged version of an article written by Jean Lane in 1998: full version with photos, links and resources here . From mid-June 1977, the Grunwick strike in north London by workers in a film-processing firm (see part one of the story here ) was all over the TV. The media’s lies were extraordinary: getting in good practice for the next miners’ strike. Grunwick...