Learning on ScreenJustice for the Shrewsbury Pickets
- Synopsis
- A film re-examining the political events surrounding the arrest of 24 Shrewsbury building workers and the imprisonment of three of them, six months after the successful 1972 building workers’ strike. The film includes film material from the original campaign to free Des Warren and Ricky Tomlinson (star of TV’s ‘The Royle Family’), jailed for three years and two years on conspiracy charges after the original criminal charges were dropped.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of release
- 2011
- Subjects
- Law; Politics & government
- Keywords
- building industries; police; political campaigns; trades unions; strikes
Production Company
- Name
Platform Films
- Web
- http://www.platformfilms.co.uk External site opens in new window
Distributor
- Name
Platform Films
- Platform.films@virgin.net
- Web
- http://www.platformfilms.co.uk/html%20Site/index.html External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 07973 278956
- Fax
- 020 7278 8394
- Address
- Unit 14 Pennybank Chambers
33-35 St John’s Square
LONDON
EC1M 4DS
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