Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Divide And Ruin: The West’s Imperial Strategy In An Age Of Crisis
Edited by Granville Williams
(Campaign For Press And Broadcasting Freedom, £6.99)
THE 12 articles making up Settling Scores are a damning indictment of the kind of state we live in.
A reflection on the 1984-85 miners’ strike, its contributors draw on newly released documents to prove the true extent of the collaboration between the government, the police and the media in defeating the miners.
The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends a methodical unmasking of the US media’s complicity in the Israeli genocide, that should be a template for what’s needed to bring Britain’s corporate media to book
The once beating heart of British journalism was undone by technological change, union battles and Murdoch’s 1986 Wapping coup – leaving London the only major capital without a press club, says TIM GOPSILL
Four decades on, the Wapping dispute stands as both a heroic act of resistance and a decisive moment in the long campaign to break trade union power. Lord JOHN HENDY KC looks back on the events of 1986


