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Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Weeks 16-20 Update
Throughout this 40th anniversary year of the miners’ strike, Left Horizons will publish regular bulletins on important issues and developments that occurred during the strike,

Arthur Scargill: documents show Thatcher agreed to settlement in October 1984
Continuing our occasional series on the great miners’ strike of 1984-85, we reproduce here a speech by the then NUM President, Arthur Scargill, which he

By Richard Mellor in California This is from a Facebook post by Brian Tierney “I’d like to clarify that I agree with Sean O’Brien and

Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners – Solidarity Forever!
By Ray Goodspeed, original LGSM member 1984-85 and Left Horizons supporter During this 40th anniversary year of the of the great miners’ strike of 1984-85,

By Steve McKenzie (Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley Unite Community) At last, after fourteen years of chaos and neglect, the Tories have been kicked out of

Liverpool dockers’ solidarity with pro-Palestine students
By Liverpool docker. Liverpool University students, along with thousands of others around the country, have joined in the global protests against the genocidal assault on

Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Weeks 12-15 Update
Throughout this 40th anniversary year of the miners’ strike, Left Horizons will publish regular bulletins on features and developments that occurred during the strike, month

By John Pickard On June 18, 1984, police from South Yorkshire and other forces attacked unarmed and peaceful miners’ pickets who had gathered at the

A ‘New Deal for Workers’: how it was repeatedly diluted
By Andy Ford The ‘New Deal for Working People’, painstakingly negotiated between the trade unions and Keir Starmer’s leadership team was, if not the jewel