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The blackleg miners’ powerful friend at No 10 Downing Street
CONRAD LANDIN trawls through declassified files revealing Thatcher’s personal desire to pay back scab miners and the tensions this aroused within her cabinet
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
CLASSIFIED Downing Street files on Margaret Thatcher’s meetings with the Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM) offer a fascinating insight into her government’s industrial relations strategy.
The revelation that at least three meetings took place will not surprise many who witnessed the Tories’ war with the miners. But some of the details remain startling.
As well as showing Thatcher’s personal investment in paying back strikebreaking miners for helping to end the 1984-85 strike, the documents expose how the PM’s strategy affected her relationship with cabinet colleagues.
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