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Jon Snow, on his own involvement in protests at Liverpool University 50 years ago
As Liverpool prepares for protest, Jon Snow writes of his own involvement in very similar actions there fifty years ago
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As Liverpool prepares for protest, Jon Snow writes of his own involvement in very similar actions there fifty years ago
Nine years ago when student Alfie Meadows was, in his words, “thrashed with a police baton” – during the 2010 Westminster student protests against tuition fees – he was “nearly killed and lucky to survive.”
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