Watching the articulate and intelligent Mick Lynch, General Secretary or the RMT, comprehensively school some of the lightweight, minor celebrities who pass as journalists these days has been both gratifying and amusing. Mick, the son of Irish parents, who left school as a sixteen- year-old to work in the building trade, knowns his stuff. He also knows the historical and cultural context the trade union movement. When asked by one hapless interviewer who his hero was he replied ‘James Connolly...
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