Labour will challenge Tory ministers today to come clean about the Thatcher government's onslaught on the miners.
Shadow Cabinet Office minister Michael Dugher will fling down the gauntlet in the Commons as part of Labour's "Justice for the Coalfields" campaign.
Mr Dugher will demand an official government apology and the release of secret papers detailing collusion between Margaret Thatcher, ministers and the police.
On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose unresolved injustices still demand redress today, writes ANN FIELD
MIKE QUILLE applauds an excellent example of cultural democracy: making artworks which are a relevant, integral part of working-class lives
The Home Secretary’s recent letter suggests the Labour government may finally deliver on its nine-year manifesto commitment, writes KATE FLANNERY, but we must move quickly: as recently as 2024 Northumbria police destroyed miners’ strike documents


