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Turn Labour's win into a victory for ordinary people
Former miner and Labour MP IAN LAVERY reflects on how to regain trust and offer hope as we celebrate the Durham Miners' Gala
REWRITING THE SCRIPT: Joy among young Popular Front supporters at Republique Plaza in Paris, France on Sunday July 7 2024 at the projected victory at the polls. Banner read: ‘Our popular Front is anti-colonial [and] anti-racist’ and ‘The extreme right shall not pass. From Gaza to Paris Intifada’
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IN 1984 the traditional Gala celebrations were replaced by a demonstration as part of cost-cutting measures brought in by the Durham Miners’ Association.
The demonstration took place in what was described in the local press as siege city. Bars kept their doors closed and shops were boarded shut awaiting trouble which never materialised. In fact, the three arrests made were fewer than usual.
Forty years later Durham is buzzing, the pubs crammed to the rafters and the shops doing a brisk trade.
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