MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
"We had it all in 1984 and they destroyed it," declares Frank Arrowsmith.
"They turned my village into a place where arsonists grew. Drugs. It's only in the last five years they've started building, knocking down the old council estates that have been gutted by arson and drugs."
During the great miners' strike of 1984-5 Arrowsmith was the National Union of Mineworkers official at Yorkshire Main Colliery, in the traditional mining village of Edlington near Doncaster.
In the second of a series of interviews with leaders of progressive parties in Wales ahead of the May 7 Senedd election David Nicholson talks to Welsh Green Party leader ANTHONY SLAUGHTER
The Home Secretary’s recent letter suggests the Labour government may finally deliver on its nine-year manifesto commitment, writes KATE FLANNERY, but we must move quickly: as recently as 2024 Northumbria police destroyed miners’ strike documents
The Big Meeting isn’t simply nostalgia, it’s a happy day and a day to show resistance. HEATHER WOOD explains why
Durham Miners’ Association general secretary ALAN MARDGHUM speaks to Ben Chacko ahead of Gala Day 2025


