The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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Sheffield to honour the chronicler of the miners’ strike
PETER LAZENBY reminisces about the ‘lovely feller’ and much-missed photographer Martin Jenkinson
The first national women's rally in support of striking miners at Barnsley Civic Hall
[Martin Jenkinson]
TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact
Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
REMEMBER the photograph of a grinning striking miner, wearing a toy policeman’s helmet, “inspecting” a line of police officers during the miners’ strike in 1984?
Or the young miners fleeing around an ice cream van as police rioted at Orgreave coke depot in South Yorkshire? Or the arrest of miners’ union President Arthur Scargill?
Many people will remember the images, but probably have little knowledge of the photographer responsible for them. They were the work of freelance snapper Martin Jenkinson, who died from cancer in February 2012.
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