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No regrets in new sharlston
Former NUM branch activist MICK APPLEYARD tells Peter Lazenby about how the strike affected his town - and why he and his comrades would do the same today
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
New Sharlston was a typical Yorkshire mining community located between Wakefield and Doncaster.
The pit was sunk in 1865. In 1984 it employed 1,000 miners.
The pithead gear dominated the skyline. The community thrived. The miners' welfare opposite the pit gates was a centre of organisation as well as social recreation.
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