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PETER LAZENBY is fascinated by a book of cartoons that shows how newspaper cartoonists were employed to, on the one hand, denigrade and, on the other, to defend the miners’ strike of 1984-85
(L to R) Nicholas Garland in The Telegraph; Frank Eccles Brown in the Morning Star
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Argentinians commemorated the 50th anniversary of the military dictatorship that left 30,000 people killed or ‘disappeared.’ BERT SCHOUWENBURG reports
In Voices of Scotland YANA PETTICREW looks at the crippling deterioration of working-class art provision and support
As weapons return to Suffolk and defence spending soars, London CND is pressing local candidates to oppose nuclear expansion and support the UN ban treaty. SALLY SPIERS explains
One hundred years on from Britain’s only general strike, socialists will gather in London at the Morning Star’s annual conference to discuss how organised labour can once again become the engine of radical change. Editor BEN CHACKO encourages readers to come along and join the debate
In the year following Peterloo a mass strike erupted into armed revolt as Scotland’s workers demanded their rights, yet this uprising remains largely absent from popular history, writes KENNY MacASKILL
FORTY years after the 1984-85 miners’ strike against pit closures it might be thought that every aspect of the strike has been analysed and written about.
Not so.
A new book, The Art of Class War: Newspaper Cartoonists and the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike, by former BBC Radio News reporter Nicholas Jones, will be launched on Saturday in Leeds.
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