Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
THE pits may have gone, but the spirit of Britain’s mineworkers, their families and their communities lives on — and nowhere more so than at the Durham Miners’ Gala.
Today we mark the 135th Durham Miners’ Gala, the Big Meeting, with a day of celebration and solidarity of the trade union movement and the working class.
It is our movement’s biggest event in Britain, and one of the biggest in Europe.
Durham Miners’ Association chair STEPHEN GUY speaks to Ben Chacko about the Reform threat, what’s needed from Labour and why the Big Meeting will never lose its politics
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
The Durham Miners’ Gala is a celebration of working-class culture, but also a call to action — to rebuild workers’ collective strength, says KIM JOHNSON MP



