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Mick Lynch: Strife, strikes and workers' rights

The Interview

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Do You Reckon Your Background Has Prepared You for the Future?

You've been a fighter throughout your life. Do you think this is why you are so ready to fight today? Well, working class people have always had to fight. Our welfare state and our NHS are unemployment benefit, sickness benefit. We're not given to us as gifts by the rich, by the ruling class. And if we give up our terms and additions, we'll be back to another era - before any of us had sick pay. Many millions of people in this country are now in that condition,. which is why many people are not just poor but actually going into destitution. You don't want their members to go that way... I'm talking about union organised jobs with collective

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