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19 January 2012
Cardiff Central Socialist Party: The miners' strike: lessons for today
Contact Joe on 07581240001 or joe_fathallah@hotmail.com for more information, writes Thursday 19th January 2012.
18 January 2012
Brighton Socialist Party: The 1984-5 miners' strike
The last time the Tory Party took on the trade unions resulted in a mass strike by the National Union of Mineworkers to prevent pit closures, writes Wednesday 18th January 2012.
Thatcher: The Iron Lady, still from movie
11 January 2012
Film review :The Iron Lady in meltdown
The widely hyped film 'The Iron Lady' is not intended to cover all the political events of Thatcher's life. It deals with the political issues through the incoherent rambling recollections of an old and demented Thatcher...
Rent strike on Clydeside
16 November 2011
The first shop stewards movement
The outbreak of World War One in August 1914 cut across the great industrial unrest which had been gathering pace since 1911...
21 September 2011
Wales mine deaths: Privatisation comes under the spotlight
The tragic deaths of four coalminers at the Gleision Colliery in the Swansea Valley, South Wales, has inevitably raised the issue of safety in the mining industry...
Support for Jarrow March at the Durham Miners' Gala
13 July 2011
Support for Jarrow March at the Durham Miners' Gala
60,000 people descended on Durham on Saturday 9 July for the 127th annual Durham Miners' Gala. The Gala sees ex-miners and their communities join with other trade unionists to march through the city centre...
6 July 2011
Durham Miners' Gala: Miliband pulls out
Ed Miliband has come under fire for pulling out of speaking at the Durham Miners' Gala. In a cowardly retreat it became clear he did not want to share the stage with Bob Crow, the militant leader of the...
The Pitmen Painters, photo by Keith Pattison
29 June 2011
Play review: Lee Hall, creator of Billy Elliot, focuses here on the real experiences of Ashington miners who, through the Workers Education Association (WEA), become celebrated artists in their spare time, writes Mark Baker.
20 April 2011
Anniversary: Black Friday 15 April 1921
A warning for the workers' movement: Following the magnificent 26 March TUC demonstration workers and anti-cuts campaigners want to know how to build the movement to defeat the cuts...
Knocking off at harland and Wolf shipyard
16 February 2011
Britain 1911-1914: The great unrest - lessons for today
100 years ago the working class responded to the terrible conditions imposed on them by taking mass industrial action in what became known as the 'great unrest', writes Jim Horton.
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