TODAY the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign will again attend the National Union of Mineworkers’s (NUM) headquarters in Barnsley and lay a wreath to mark the deaths of Yorkshire miners David Jones and Joe Green.

Both men died on the picket lines of the 1984-85 miners’ strike and, 36 years on, still no one has been arrested, charged or convicted for their unlawful deaths.

These men simply left their homes one day to stand up for their right to work but sadly did not return.

What’s more, it is strongly felt that their deaths were not properly investigated by the police at the time.

While there are numerous examples of trumped-up and false allegations against mineworkers of violence being fast-tracked through the courts — when these two miners had their lives taken they and their families suffered justice denied.

Even though this month marks 35 years since the end of the ’84-85 strike, the wound is still open and the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign continues to fight for the justice denied to all striking miners, their families and communities.

The relevance of what happened back then should not be consigned to history.

In a newspaper article in July 1984, Arthur Scargill, the national president of the NUM said: “If the miners lose, you will all suffer.”

He has been proved right, just as he was about the true intention of the Thatcher government to sell off our nationalised industries and open them up to the free market.

The strike was lost and the consequences can be seen in our workplaces today – zero-hours contracts, precarious low-paid work, non-unionised workplaces, bogus self-employment and, as a result, local economies foundering.

The miners’ strike and the state interference in the policing of it at Orgreave and across our whole mining communities is not history and “all in the past.” Its legacy is still very much here in the present.

Much has been made of the fact that some ex-mining communities elected Tory MPs at the last election for the first time.

This should not be seen as forgetting or forgiving the actions of the Tory government in the 1980s, or indeed as being indifferent when it comes to justice for Orgreave.

Far from it. Last Friday, March 6, over 300 people attended the NUM headquarters in Barnsley to see the premiere of the Orgreave campaign’s new film, “Miners’ Strike Stories.”

Some who attended had been directly involved in the strike, ex-miners, Women Against Pit Closures, children of the strike.

But there were many there who had not even been born at the time of the strike - young people, some born this century, who completely understand the connection with the strike and the need for these historic working-class wrongs to be righted.

The Orgreave campaign returns to the NUM headquarters today and this year we are immensely honoured to be asked to speak in the Memorial Lecture.

Kate Flannery, Secretary of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign will speak on our behalf and honour the memories of David Jones and Joe Green.

In doing so let us never forget the loss, sacrifice and suffering of that year and continue to fight for the truth and justice so long overdue.

Chris Peace is a solicitor who became involved in the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign in 2013 and a former Labour party candidate for North East Derbyshire. She works for GMB.