Then NUM president Arthur Scargil addresses a mass rally in Jubilee Gardens, in London in 1984
TRIBUTES will be paid to a campaigner who staged a heroic five-day women’s occupation of Staffordshire colliery to oppose the Tories’ final butchery of the coalmining industry in 1993.
Bridget Bell, whose funeral takes place tomorrow at Barnsley crematorium, died on August 8 aged 64.
Her eulogy will be delivered by Arthur Scargill, who was president of the National Union of Mineworkers during the strike against pit closures of 1984-5, and who described her as “an inspiration.”
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
MOLLIE BROWN reports on this year’s festival in honour of the ‘seven men of Jarrow’ deported to Australia for union activity 193 years ago
