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A bonfire on a Welsh hillside. The Cambrian combine strike and its aftermath
ROB TURNBULL looks at one of the most bitter and divisive strikes in British labour history that resonated far beyond the narrow confines of the Rhondda Valley
CLASS CONFLICT: Police officers blocking a street during the
Tonypandy Riots of 1910-1911
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Rising temperatures and human activity are making life far harder for these vital pollinators. ALEX DITTRICH explains
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners co-founder MIKE JACKSON talks to Matt Kerr about the enduring power of Pride, protest and trade unionism
Behind the language of military strategy is a confrontation that risks drawing the wider Middle East into war, says STEVE BISHOP
THE Cambrian Combine strike of 1910-11 was one of the bitterest industrial disputes ever to take place in Britain.
Initially a dispute about what were known as “abnormal places,” where the coal was difficult to extract, miners had long been paid a con, or consideration payment, to compensate.
This system was entirely at the discretion of management and was subject to widespread abuse. It was this and a new price list for cutting coal, at the Ely pit of the Naval Colliery Company in Penygraig, that sparked the dispute.
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Corbyn and Sultana’s ‘Your Party’ represents the first attempt at mass socialist organisation since the CPGB’s formation in 1921, argues DYLAN MURPHY