Orgreave: it’s not over yet The 40th anniversary of the 1984-5 miners’ strike will bring renewed demands for an inquiry into the brutal police attack on miners at Orgreave in South Yorkshire. PETER LAZENBY reports
Monday 30th Oct 2023 Industrial Almost 700 workers sacked after Safestyle enters administration Yorkshire workers sacked via text message
Wednesday 04th Oct 2023 Stella Assange: we all need to be there on Day X ‘Day X,’ the final extradition hearing, is now approaching for journalist Julian Assange, his wife tells Morning Star reporter PETER LAZENBY, and all available support must be mobilised
Tuesday 03rd Oct 2023 Conservative Party Conference 2023 Police protest stop: Asian woman ‘singled out’ Passengers on a coach travelling from London to Sunday’s People’s Assembly protest against the Tory conference in Manchester were left traumatised by a police operation, reports PETER LAZENBY
Saturday 16th Sep 2023 From Shu’fat refugee camp to the Orkney Islands Five Palestinians from a refugee camp near Jerusalem are telling their stories on a tour of Britain as guests of Unite Community. Morning Star northern reporter PETER LAZENBY meets them in Yorkshire
Tuesday 12th Sep 2023 How the British left sheltered Pinochet’s victims Fifty years ago, Britain’s unions and left sprang into action to help refugees from Chile. What happened is an example for our movement today, writes Morning Star northern reporter PETER LAZENBY
Saturday 15th Jul 2023 ‘Industrial action works’ Peter Lazenby spoke to PCS president FRAN HEATHCOTE about the regeneration of her union, the relationship with Labour, and her campaign to become general secretary
Tuesday 21st Mar 2023 March 21 1973: the Lofthouse colliery disaster Fifty years ago seven coal miners in Yorkshire died when they broke through to a long-abandoned shaft, releasing millions of gallons of water. Morning Star northern reporter PETER LAZENBY remembers the tragedy
Monday 11th Jul 2022 Socialist women raise a new banner at the Durham Miners’ Gala Five years ago the Durham Women’s Banner Group came together to make sure the role of women was fully appreciated and celebrated not just on the coalfields, but across the whole of the labour movement, writes PETER LAZENBY
Thursday 12th May 2022 Brian Jackson: trade unionist, co-operator, environmentalist and communist Tributes will be paid today to a Leeds communist who was for decades a familiar figure of left and progressive movements in Yorkshire
Thursday 10th Mar 2022 Halifax joins the revolt against NHS privatisation The rebellion against the exploitation of outsourced workers in the NHS is spreading, writes Morning Star Northern Reporter PETER LAZENBY