GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
Martin Jenkinson was a freelance photographer who lived in Sheffield in south Yorkshire. Tens of thousands of people will have seen his work in national and regional newspapers, perhaps without knowing his name.
Jenkinson died in February 2012 but the images he produced will live on for decades, carrying messages of working-class struggle and determination.
Now some of his work has been reproduced in the illustrated book Images Of The The Past: The Miners' Strike which coincides with the 30th anniversary of its beginning in March 1984.
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
The once beating heart of British journalism was undone by technological change, union battles and Murdoch’s 1986 Wapping coup – leaving London the only major capital without a press club, says TIM GOPSILL
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



