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Whilst recovering from a long weekend featuring too much food, why not travel back to the 1960s, exploring how the Syndicalist Workers' Federation (SWF) reported on strikes, Vietnam, Student Protests, the Cold War, bashed Wilson, the Labour Party, Fidel Castro, etc.?

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And as always there were some other bits and bobs that have been freshly digitised...

Don't Mark His Face - The Account of the Hull Prison Riot (1976) and its brutal aftermath by the Prisoners Themselves

Black Jake's Occasional Organ

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