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The Gala continues the traditions of the struggles of our class
The Big Meeting is far from a nostalgic look back at the past, says NUM leader CHRIS KITCHEN
Dennis Skinner addresses Durham Miners Gala

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.

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