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Alan Rowland
Alan was one of the workers sacked by GCHQ because he refused to give up his trade union membership.
Ahead of the rally in Cheltenham on 27 January to mark the 40th anniversary of the ban on unions at GCHQ, Alan - the first trade unionist at GCHQ to be sacked in 1988 - writes about the ban, his determination to fight it, and the importance of support from the trade union movement.