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Justice campaigners to join Bloody Sunday families.
As part of this year’s Bloody Sunday commemoration the Bloody Sunday Trust will host a public meeting highlighting the experiences of working class struggles for truth and justice.
Families from the Stardust fire in Dublin, Hillsborough, Grenfell, the Post Office scandal, Creeslough Co Donegal and Ballymurphy will come to Derry to discuss their struggles and to explore their lived experience in conjunction with the Bloody Sunday Families.
The discussion will be opened with a keynote address by Prof Phil Scraton, the critical criminologist, academic and author.
Prof Scraton is a social researcher, known particularly for his investigative work into the context, circumstances and aftermath of the 1989 Hillsborough catastrophe.
More recently, he was a member of the Hillsborough Independent Panel and headed its research.
Currently he is professor emeritus in the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast, and formerly Director of the Childhood, Transition and Social Justice Initiative.
Maeve Mc Laughlin, Director, Bloody Sunday Trust said: "Manyy families and Campaign groups, especially those from working-class backgrounds, have had a difficult experience in campaigning for truth and justice, ignored by governments, national institutions and big business because of their background and to protect the powerful.
"As James Connolly said, 'History, in general, treats the working class as the manipulator of politics treats the working man – that is to say, with contempt when he remained passive, and with derision, hatred and misrepresentation whenever he 9dares evince a desire to throw off the yoke of political or social servitude.'
"But despite this many have won through, getting inquiries, fresh inquests and public apologies”
'Punching Up - Working Class Struggles for Truth and Justice' will take place on Saturday, January 31, 2026, at 1pm, in Derry's Millwnnium Forum.
For more information and reservations please visit https://workingclassstruggles.eventbrite.
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