BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
Justice for the 37 Cammell Laird strikers
Striking to keep the Birkenhead shipyard open and save a community from devastation, 37 workers went into occupation. Outrageously, they were jailed for their legitimate action — MICK WHITLEY MP writes now is the time to clear their names
Cammell Laird yard
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research explores the factors that are bringing today’s highly educated but often underemployed young people out onto the streets, from Chile, to Algeria, to Nepal
The nation’s leading second-hand socialist bookseller that has been running strong for 33 years is changing hands and expanding its vision — now is the time to get involved, buy, donate and support, writes ANDREW MURRAY
IN June 1984, the National Union of Mineworkers entered the fourth month of its historic year-long struggle with the Thatcher government.
A few weeks later a massive police attack on the Orgreave picket was unleashed. The prisons started to fill with pickets. Industrial action was being branded a crime.
Thatcher had vowed to take on and defeat any group of workers who opposed her wave of deindustrialisation and the jobs massacre that was its inevitable consequence.
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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
Since 2023, Strike Map has evolved from digital mapping at a national level to organising ‘mega pickets’ — we believe that mass solidarity with localised disputes prepares the ground for future national action, writes HENRY FOWLER
In the third extract from her new memoir, former NUM headquarters staffer HILARY CAVE recounts how women throughout the striking coalfields showed their mettle when the going got tough
