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June 18 1984. Never forget, never forgive.
We must never forget or forgive what the Tories orchestrated and the police did throughout mining communities all over Britain and to striking miners at Orgreave – so join us for an anniversary rally this weekend, writes KATE FLANNERY
Violence outside the Orgreave Coking Plant near Rotherham, where police, with mounted police support, clashed with miner's pickets in 1984
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IN JUNE 1984 the miners’ strike against Tory plans for pit closures had been going on for three months. The cold war was raging. Prime minister Margaret Thatcher and US president Ronald Reagan were colluding to boost their nuclear capability while waging class war on their own population.
Their devotion to monetarism and increasing the role of the private market required shifting politics sharply to the right, just as had happened after the fascist junta in Chile and other oppressive regimes.
Tory warmongers had tasted a quick victory in their war to maintain control of the Falklands Islands, giving them a renewed confidence and an opportunity to whip up jingoism.
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The Home Secretary’s recent letter suggests the Labour government may finally deliver on its nine-year manifesto commitment, writes KATE FLANNERY, but we must move quickly: as recently as 2024 Northumbria police destroyed miners’ strike documents
