SECRETS and lies, solidarity and treachery: the Wapping dispute was a defining battle of the 1980s, whose consequences still shape the media and industrial relations today.Strike veterans, campaigners ...
On 24 January 1986, nearly 6,000 newspaper workers at Rupert Murdoch’s News International went on strike over plans to move print operations from Fleet Street to east London ...
From Wapping: The Workers' Story (2020), dir. Christopher Reeves (all images courtesy News International Dispute Archive) Shortly afterward, the mogul bought a new plant in the Wapping neighborhood of ...