SOLOMON HUGHES examines the shift in Labour rhetoric on racism and Reform UK – and what’s driving it
Orgreave rally 2023: more relevant than ever
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
A new report says the government’s purchase of US nuclear-armed aircraft prioritises transatlantic politics over military needs and ignored its own Strategic Defence Review, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MAT COWARD reminds us that the resilience of ordinary folk can turn the tables on the mighty and 'entitled'
JACK DAVIDSON explains the motivation behind the UCU strike action at the University of Sheffield
DYLAN MURPHY focuses on the big tech oligarchs’ war against workers and how AI and robotics could destroy 100 million US jobs by 2035
Davie and Turness are two scalps for Trump, Farage and Johnson, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
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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