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On the march for Orgreave justice
The police attack on striking miners at will be once again marked as a day of infamy at the annual march and rally of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign in Sheffield next Saturday, writes Morning Star northern reporter PETER LAZENBY
Police in anti-riot gear escorting picketers away from their position near the Orgreave Coking Plant near Rotherham, June 18, 1984
Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE
Over 100,000 people are expected on Brussels’s streets today. Ben Chacko speaks to Belgian Workers Party’s PETER MERTENS on wage and pensions attacks that have united the fightback
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
Berlin’s Soviet war memorials are becoming the latest front in a political struggle to ‘de-Sovietise’ German history. NICO POPP reports
Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in – and acceptable to – the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
THE facts of what happened at Orgreave on June 18 1984 are well known.
Armoured police launched a pre-planned attack on lightly clad striking coalminers at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire.
The police violence was probably the most brutal in the history of industrial struggle in Britain.
Ninety-five miners were arrested and dozens were subsequently dragged before the courts to face charges based on falsified police evidence. The trials collapsed.
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