After 28 months of struggle, LLB salutes the 500 Liverpool dockers, Women of the Waterfront, your children and families. Unlike our 'leaders', you gave us leadership. Unlike the so-called 'Labour Government', you acted for our class. With solidarity from dockers in five continents, you built your own magnificent International. Disregarding your own hardship, you helped sustain the Hillingdon hospital strikers, You defended human rights in Turkey, stood on the Magnet picket-line, campaigned with the homeless, helped reclaim the streets. You began to unite our struggles. We need you to keep doing that. You, the Liverpool dockers, are the one leadership which has stood the test. You would not cross a picket line. Keep that banner flying.
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