In the Newport area, Simon Phillips and his colleagues put on over 200 shows during the course of the strike, in aid of the ...

EXCLUSIVE: One of Britain's most controversial MPs is referenced in the script and has a connection to the shocking events ...

With OMV set to announce unexpectedly good flows from its Pohokura field and Genesis buying in more coal, the tide is turning back to investment in fossil fuels. Shane Jones tells Jonathan Milne that ...

"My boyfriend worked at Cwm Coking works during the miners' strike. We were about to get married in the October and decided to go ahead with it anyhow, but obviously had to cut down on some things - ...

Tomorrow, Tuesday November 25, the Marx Memorial Library continues its series of discussions on the lessons of the miners’ strike with John Sheppard, a striking Armthorpe miner Last week Seumas Milne, ...

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In the early 1980s, socialist soul punks Redskins pursued a staunchly committed left politics in pop later at odds with Labour's Red Wedge movement.

during the epic miners’ strike of the 1980s. LGSM came together to support the British miners during the year-long strike of 1984-5. There were 11 LGSM groups throughout the country. London was the ...

A new "time tunnel" exhibition which tells the history of British coal mining has opened in West Yorkshire. The feature, ...

“He also invoked the Taft-Hartley Act when the UMWA went on strike in 1977. That did not win him any friends in the labor movement at the time, but the truth is miners largely ignored his order ...

The first national miners’ strike since the General Strike of 1926 was called in January 1972 in support of a 25 per cent pay claim – 7.4 per cent had been offered. Strikers shut down each of ...

In 1984 the miners' strike threw coal-mining areas across the UK into industrial chaos and social upheaval. It contributed to a shift in the political landscape and, according to Billy Bragg ...