Miners Strike

Miners Strike

• Justice Denied: Friends, Foes and the Miners' Strike - book review

  

  The Miners’ Strike was a major class defeat, but as the essays in Justice Denied show, it is also a beacon for the collective values that persist, argues Sofie Mason

• Poll Tax 1990: the revolt that sank Thatcher - video

  

  Tom Whittaker gives a sharp introduction on how Thatcher was toppled and what lessons activists today can learn in kicking the Tories out

• The many crises of the British state

  

  The British state is enveloped in crisis more than at any point for 30 years. One more push could topple this government, argues Chris Bambery

• Every revolution needs some smashing plates

  

  A 1985 Exhibition of Soviet Design came to London and showed Mark Perryman the real meaning of revolution

• Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners - book review

  

  The Russian Revolution and World War I led to a surge in workers’ struggles in Britain, as an important new history of the miners’ strikes of 1919 shows, finds Lindsey German

• 18 June 1984: remembering Orgreave

  

  As the government announces that there will be no inquiry in to the tragic events at Orgreave, Sheena Moore takes a look back at what happened

• Durham Miners Gala: an inspiring day

  

  As the coup from the Labour right is launched, the Labour movement vehemently backs Jeremy Corbyn, writes Chris Nineham

• Celebrating the Miners Strike through film: 'Miners’ Hymns' and 'DS30'

  

  Mike Quille reviews two new films: Miners’ Hymns which is out on DVD, and a new film called DS30, which will be shown in Durham a few days before the Miners Gala

• Rock against what?

  

  Mark Perryman welcomes the release of the Orgreave Justice Double CD of rebel music, old and new