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High time for miners’ pension justice
The miners who toiled away down the pit, creating the wealth and prosperity so enjoyed by the British state, should now get their due, says JON TRICKETT
NUM members after carrying out safety work at Mardy Colliery, South Wales, in 1984
The US reprisal of global nuclear proliferation, threatening a new arms race, could push the world to the brink of annihilation, warns SOPHIE BOLT of CND
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ask how an 80-tonne whale that lives 200 years is so resistant to cancer
October 2025 was another Black History Month. Has Britain learned anything – or are we going backwards, asks CLAUDIA WEBBE
Real action is needed to make sure tragedies like that at Huntingdon never happen again. TSSA leader MARYAM ESLAMDOUST suggests some practical, achievable steps to be taken
VINCE MILLS sizes up the problems facing Your Party north of the border as it grapples with a range of policies, including its approach to Scottish independence
MARK SERWOTKA issues a rallying call to those committed to building a new radical socialist party of the working class to commit to real democracy, not imaginary or performative gestures
FOR over 25 years I have been proud to represent the constituency of Hemsworth.
Hemsworth is a special constituency with a special history. I represent over 20 villages, many of which have historic links to the pits.
South Kirkby, Frickley, Kinsley, Sharlston and Ackton Hall Colliery in Featherstone are all situated in my constituency. For decades, these were huge employers in this part of Yorkshire.
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Remembering KEN CAPSTICK, vice-president of the National Union of Mineworkers Yorkshire Area
National Women Against Pit Closures secretary LYNN GIBSON was nine years old when striking miners and their families celebrated Christmas in 1984. She will never forget it
With solidarity coming in from across Britain and the world, PETER LAZENBY speaks to the people who made Christmas 1984 a celebration of working-class resistance in Britain’s striking coalmining communities
