JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US
‘Solidarity forever’ – our message in a very special Gala year
Durham Miners Association leader ALAN MARDGHUM talks to Ben Chacko about the continued relevance of trade unions, the lacklustre general election campaign, whether we can believe opinion polls and the ‘reprehensible’ North Durham candidate, Luke Akehurst
BIG MEETING: Alan Mardghum speaking at last year’s Gala; and (below) pipe bands and banners parade through Durham
SOPHIE BOLT makes an urgent case for comprehensive nuclear disarmament
Today Coventry’s Hiroshima Day Remembrance marks 80 years since the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Statement from Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee of Peace and Reconciliation
All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionised in a historic victory for labour, says RIO YAMAT
Letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper – to be delivered by a delegation of Jews to Downing Street today
Laughter has always been how workers cope and fight back, but university-educated union reps now scold members for calling bosses ‘money-grabbing bastards’ and label everyday humour ‘problematic’ — this needs to be stopped, writes MARK JONES
IN TWO weeks crowds will throng the streets of Durham in Britain and Europe’s biggest celebration of working-class culture — the Miners’ Gala.
For Alan Mardghum, general secretary of the Durham Miners Association (DMA), this year is special — it marks the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike, and will likely take place in the first weeks of a new, Labour government.
“I’m certainly hoping for a change of government, and to kick the Tories into oblivion,” he tells the Morning Star.
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