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State-led repression during the 1984-85 miners’ strike has a frightening number of similarities to the situation workers and campaigners find themselves in today, writes CHRIS PEACE
DELIBERATE VIOLENCE: Police grab a picket outside Orgreave coking plant. June 18, 1984
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THE Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign was established over 10 years ago to seek justice for miners, their families and communities affected, by the state-directed police violence at the Orgreave coking plant on June 18 1984.
We mark the anniversary each year on the nearest Saturday to June 18 and this year our anniversary march and rally will be held in Sheffield on Saturday June 17.
The anniversary rallies are always a vibrant day of community and comradeship, dignity and determination and a chance for miners and supporters active during the strike to share stories with new supporters, some of whom weren’t even born at the time of the strike.
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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
A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge
Trade unionists must raise our voices not only for justice and against occupation, but also to protect our fundamental right to protest, writes LOUISE REGAN, ahead of a not-to-be-missed PSC conference
KIM JOHNSON MP places the campaign in the context of the history of the working-class battles of the 1980s, and explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow