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MINERS’ MP Hywel Francis has hit back at a former Tory special adviser who said the decline of the coalmining industry should be celebrated.
The controversial claim was made by Hywel Williams — a cabinet aide during John Major’s government — in a documentary he made about the epic 1984-85 miners dispute broadcast on Welsh channel S4C last night.
In the y Gwir am y Glo (the Truth About Coal) programme, he called coalmining an “old fashioned industry” that could not be modernised with new technology.
IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
Plaid Cymru’s Caerffili by-election win raised hopes on the left — but the complex realities of Wales suggest the Senedd election may be far less predictable, argues CATRIN ASHTON
Four decades on, the Wapping dispute stands as both a heroic act of resistance and a decisive moment in the long campaign to break trade union power. Lord JOHN HENDY KC looks back on the events of 1986