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Justice will be done for the victims of the police riot at Orgreave
Hundreds of campaigners and trade unionists will march in Yorkshire today in support of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign. Campaign secretary Kate Flannery reports
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
THIS year we commemorate the 35th anniversary of Orgreave, the most violent assault by police on workers during an industrial dispute.
The Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC) continue to reaffirm our commitment to the fight for truth and justice.
Our vibrant, high profile and easily recognisable campaign was set up in 2012 to press for a public inquiry into the policing of miners picketing the Orgreave coking plant on June 18 1984, during the miners’ strike.
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by Henry Fowler, General Strike 100 project co-ordinator
KEVIN COURTNEY of Stand Up to Racism and JOHN PAGE of the Ella Baker School of Organising announce a joint project aiming to unite trade unions and social movements in creating new narratives to fight the divisive rhetoric of the far right
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
