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Hue and Cry's Pat and Greg Kane on why they'd rather make beautiful music than feud

Notes on the war

After two years of battlefield carnage there is stalemate. Jack Conrad calls for the left to break from social-pacifism and centrism

Passion and defiance of Miners' Strike featured in new book

March 6 2024 will mark 40 years since the start of the Miners’ Strike, a year-long conflict which ripped apart communities in Wales.

Could the miners have won in 1984-85?

The beginning of this month marks the thirtieth anniversary of the great miners’ strike. This article, by Sean Matgamna, written in 1992, at a time when the Tories were pushing through many pit closures, discusses the lessons of the heroic miners’ fight, and the effects of their defeat. It is a famous picture, the one of Arthur Scargill being arrested at the “Battle of Orgreave”, on 30 May 1984, where miners fought a long battle with troops of police and with police cavalry at a coke depot outside Sheffield. It was one of the turning points of the 1984-85 miners’ strike.

How the Miners' Strike Was Lost | History Today

What works for the left? Liberal socialism

Arthur Scargill: Veteran trade unionist to lead Yorkshire parade marking 40th anniversary of Miners' Strike

Miners' Strike 40th anniversary: New colourised photos reveal Doncaster struggle

Miners' strike 40 years on: Battle in Brum sowed the seeds of what was to come

The tragedy of Arthur Scargill

Arthur Scargill emerged from semi-retirement from politics to speak at a meeting of the Communist Party of Britain’s wretched little pro-Brexit front organisation Leave Fight Transform (LeFT) in Brighton on 11 September, alongside Eddie Dempsey (the man who said Tommy Robinson supporters were right to hate the “liberal left”) and other assorted xenophobes, nationalists and social conservatives. According to the Morning Star Scargill said that “every single MP who wants us to go back into Europe should be opposed.” That would be the majority of Labour MPs, then, Arthur?