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,
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The 1944 strike wave: ‘the right to strike is part of the freedoms we fight for’
By Cain O’Mahony [photo shows “Bevin Boys” – conscripted miners in Cramlington, Northumberland] Eighty years ago, there was a political storm across Britain as trade
By Yunus Bakhsh The suspension of Labour’s candidate for Gordon Brown’s old seat of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath is a bit of a rarity, in that
Letter from Steve McKenzie, Unite Community member In a letter to August Bebel in 1875, Karl Marx’s close friend and collaborator, Fredrick Engels, was highly
By Bob Wade, Branch Secretary, Birmingham & Coventry NUJ The 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike was commemorated in Birmingham with a special photographic exhibition
By Mike Kennard in Cambridgeshire The GMB does not have the reputation of being a militant union fighting to the death for its members, nor
By Steve McKenzie, Unite Community member The civil war in Unite, between the General Secretary, Sharon Graham and her supporters, and the so called ‘United
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Amazon workers stand firm against management dirty tricks
By Birmingham Left Horizons supporters The workers at Amazon took further strike action in the last week of March, in their fight for £15 an
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Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Week three update
Throughout this 40-year anniversary of the miners’ strike, Left Horizons will publish regular updates on how the strike developed around the country, as it happened,
Letter from Dave Putson, Unite Community member When Sharon Graham was very new as General Secretary of Unite I sent her an e mail, I
