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A chance to right historic wrongs – but will the chance be seized?
The Miners Strike Pardons Bill coming before the Scottish Parliament is a golden opportunity to address injustices committed against working people – but it does not go nearly far enough, says RICHARD LEONARD MSP
An injured miner is helped away after a scuffle at the same pit, in 1984
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Kate Clark pays tribute to Ricardo, whose life spanned the hopes of Allende’s Chile, the horrors of military dictatorship and decades of campaigning for justice in exile
The electoral cost of Labour’s stance on Gaza is impossible to ignore – the new leadership must take heed, argues PETER LEARY
After the dismissal of union representatives and years of precarious working conditions, Kimpton Clocktower workers are drawing a line, writes THOMAS BELL
Burnham’s Makerfield triumph offers the party the opportunity to reconnect with working people, but only if it rejects business as usual, says CAROL MOCHAN MSP
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
BEING a member of Parliament is a huge privilege. As history shows, opportunities for bringing about change through parliamentary means don’t come along very often.
In the coming weeks members of the Scottish Parliament will have the chance, their only chance, to right some of the wrongs of the 1984-85 miners’ strike.
Of course, we cannot turn back the clock. All those lives destroyed because of the brutality of that dispute cannot be restored.
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