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The passing of an era: poet Alan Buckley on the closing of Kellingley colliery
The miners’ strike of 1984 is embedded in the British psyche as a watershed in class politics and the ultimate exposure of the “one nation” term as utter humbug. Alan Buckley has the story
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
There’s nothing romantic about coalmining. To get to the coal face at Kellingley colliery in North Yorkshire involved a 2,000-foot descent by lift, a five-mile journey by train, then a further two miles lying prone on a conveyor belt, before starting work in 30°C heat and 90 per cent humidity.
And when it comes to climate change, coal is not part of the solution though we’ll continue to burn millions of tons of imported coal in our power stations for at least a decade.
But all the same, when Kellingley — Britain’s last deep coalmine, known locally as The Big K — closed a week before Christmas Day I still felt a profound sense of sadness.
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