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Lessons from miners' strike in Scotland still reverberate
An angry miner pounds the roof of a car at the gates of Bilston Colliery near Edinburgh in 1984
MATTHEW HAWKINS explores the initiatives proposed by HEALING ARTS SCOTLAND
ALEX HALL welcomes an analysis of how modern capitalism is deeply intertwined with emotions, and their manipulation
MARTIN GRAHAM welcomes a statistical analysis of how much tax the super-rich pay, and foresees that the demand will flush out their agents
RICHARD WORTH relishes the fleeting moment and sense of flow of the late, great saxophonist
DENNIS BROE notes the thin, unfunny and apolitical quality of the gruel dished up by the US networks and studios for mass consumption
BARBARA BOSWELL remembers South African poet, storyteller, publisher, editor and activist Diana Ferrus (1953-2026)
Cowie Miners, Polmaise Colliery and the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike
by Steve McGrail with Vicky Patterson
(Scottish Labour History Publications, £6)
LABOUR movement history is more important than ever at the present time.
With increasing casualisation and the growth of precarious employment, previous experiences may be lost as a result, but there is so much to learn from previous forms of organisation and struggle, lessons from past failures as well as from earlier successes.
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