Miners strike
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The lessons of the heroic 1984-85 miners’ strike
Forty years ago, on 9 March 1984, Scottish miners began strike action. The Yorkshire National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) members…
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Spycops inquiry: why the capitalist state fears socialism
Hannah Sell, Socialist Party England and Wales general secretary and spycops inquiry participant Almost six years after its establishment, the…
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Trotskyism’s rich history in Scotland
Ronnie Stevenson - Socialist Party Scotland and a supporter of Militant from 1975 The right wing of the Parliamentary Labour Party, aided…
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Militant anniversary: 50 years of socialism and workers’ struggle
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary When we started publishing Militant, the Socialist’s predecessor, in October 1964, few of our…
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Turkey: Mass protests and strikes erupt against government and mine owners
Socialistworld.net On Tuesday 13 May, apparently faulty electrical equipment sparked a deadly explosion in a coal mine in Soma, western…
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History
International Women’s Day – The miners’ strike changed women’s lives
This year is the 30th anniversary of the 1984-85 miners’ strike. An important feature of the strike was the involvement…
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The 1984/85 miners strike was a civil war without the guns
By Ronnie Stevenson The miner’s strike of 1984/5 has correctly been described as a civil war without guns. That description…
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