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Trade unionists urged to help commemorate union member killed in London bombings

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For CWU member Giles Hart

Founder of the Polish Solidarity Campaign

Killed in the 2005 London bombings

The TUC is encouraging donations from trade unionists to the Giles Hart Solidarity Memorial Committee. Please make cheques payable to 'Giles Hart Solidarity Memorial Committee' and send it to 48 Inglis Road, London W5 3RW.

Giles Hart was a trade unionist (a CWU member) who was killed on 7 July 2005 in the London bombings (he was on the No 30 bus that blew up in Tavistock Square).

He was also the founding Chair of the Polish Solidarity Campaign in the early 1980s which campaigned for solidarity with NSZZ Solidarno??, and a number of former members of that Campaign have organised to honour him with a monument in the shape of a rough slab of Silesian granite in Ravenscourt Park in West London, near the Polish Social and Cultural Centre where he had an office and did so much of his work. The NSZZ Solidarno?? union in Poland has authorised the famous Solidarity logo to be placed on the top of the stone. The memorial is due to be unveiled on the third anniversary of his death.

Giles had been a lifelong campaigner for basic human freedoms and trade union rights. He was a prominent member of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and the Anti-Slavery Society. He was also an honorary Chair of the HG Wells Society. After his tragic death two years ago he was awarded the Knights Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

(For more on Giles Hart, see http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/tributes/page/0,,1530981,00.html).

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