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Women Against Pit Closures: you can't kill the spirit
Women who fought to save a Yorkshire coal mine have produced a book recording their experiences. PETER LAZENBY reports
Spraypainting the pit yard
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
A QUARTER of a century ago the Tory government under prime minister John Major launched its final attack on Britain’s publicly owned deep coalmining industry with a huge round of pit closures in preparation for the industry’s privatisation.
The challenge did not go unanswered. Women in coalmining communities established protest camps at seven threatened pits.
The occupants of one of the camps, at Houghton Main Colliery in Yorkshire, have now told their story, not just as a piece of labour movement history, but as an inspiration to new and forthcoming generations of women.
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