While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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In the last of four extracts from her new memoir, former NUM headquarters staffer HILARY CAVE recalls the 1985 campaign in the Nottinghamshire coalfield against the breakaway unions who went on to sabotage the great strike
SCAB RUSH: Nottinghamshire miners at a ‘Right to Work’ rally outside the Nottinghamshire NUM headquarters, May 1984
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OVER the next few weeks I helped out with the campaign, which included a number of meetings across the Notts coalfield. I recall one held in the Hucknall Sports Centre, with Ann Lilburn, then leader of the national Women Against Pit Closures movement, in the chair. Barry Johnson, vice-chair of the regional TUC, spoke on its behalf in his home town, with Arthur Scargill speaking for the NUM.
I organised the main rally of our unity campaign at Mansfield Leisure Centre one Saturday afternoon. Arriving there in good time, I found our national office receptionist Marilyn had turned up, but as she had a disability she could not climb the steps leading to the seats.
When I asked one of the strongest-looking stewards if he could help her he assessed the seating arrangement, looked carefully at Marilyn, then picked her up gently and simply carried her to one of the highest seats in the hall, giving her a brilliant view of the stage. She was delighted. Once the meeting began I thought everything was going well until I was approached by a plain-clothes police officer, probably from Special Branch, who looked very serious.
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