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'The miners set an example for today'
The Star reprints here a barnstorming speech to Aslef conference by IAN LAVERY MP, reflecting on the 30th anniversary of the start of the bitter strike of 1984-85 which changed the face of manufacturing in Britain
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
National co-ordinator for General Strike 100, HENRY FOWLER, continues his nationwide tour of partner organisations by visiting the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University
GEOFF BOTTOMS recalls meeting Fidel Castro in the ’90s after joining a Pastors for Peace caravan to Cuba, and reflects on how international support is still vital to help the island withstand economic warfare
The Ivors Academy’s hike in entry fees could turn this respected peer-assessed event into an exclusive preserve for those wealthy enough to compete, warns BEN LUNN
Peter Murrell’s weakness for the allure of prestige goods is symptomatic of modern consumer culture, says MATT KERR
“I was very proud, as a young man, to be on strike. This was a class war — the people in government, those who have, attacking those who have not. My father was a miner, my brothers were miners and I was a miner.
In our house there were four of us on strike and what gets me is when people who should know better, and who actually know nothing, tell us where it all went wrong.
They say there should have been a ballot. Bollocks! The men in Nottinghamshire would not have come out. If there had been a national ballot they would have found another reason not to come out.
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