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Jack Jones

September 2020

  • Robert Taylor believed that trade unions were fundamental to a free society

    Robert Taylor obituary

    Journalist and academic who charted the history of modern trade unions

December 2009

  • Trade union leader Jack Jones dies

    Obituaries 2009: Jack Jones

    The trade unionist, who died peacefully at 96 on 21 April, is remembered for his passion and good humour by the veteran Labour politician

October 2009

  • Jack Jones: not traitor but tribune

    Kevin Morgan
    Kevin Morgan: Christopher Andrew's book has given rise to 'KGB spy' smears of the late union leader, but he was not the real enemy within

  • The file on MI5 surveillance

    Letters: Your report regurgitates the hoary old story that my father Jack Jones was a KGB agent

  • MI5 put union leaders and protesters under surveillance during cold war

    History of MI5 reveals extent to which people regarded as potential subversives were watched

May 2009

  • Martin Kettle

    A leader picked by unions is an explosive trap for Labour

    Martin Kettle
    Martin Kettle: Party rules will mean five barons have huge clout in electing a successor to Brown. The system needs scrapping now

April 2009

  • Letters: Jack Jones

  • Jack Jones

    'For us, Spain wasn't an adventure: it was the battle against fascism'

  • Anne Perkins

    Jack Jones: the ultimate trade unionist

    Anne Perkins

  • Jack Jones

  • Shortcuts
    The most powerful man in 70s Britain

  • Jack Jones, working class hero

    Francis Beckett

  • Union leader Jack Jones dies

March 2003

  • Left standing

    Francis Beckett
    The Observer Profile: Jack Jones: Born on the eve of the Great War, he fought the fascists in the Spanish civil war, and is a leading voice against war today. As he turns 90, the veteran union leader is fighting still... and Gordon Brown, among others, still listens.
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