The 1984-5 miners’ strike – while Thatcherism won, working-class resistance was not defeated IAN LAVERY MP, who took part in – and was arrested on – the great strike, looks back on the significance of this heightened period of class struggle
Features | Saturday 08th Jul 2023 DURHAM MINERS’ GALA ’23 Clampdown on freedom of speech and assembly should concern us all
Features | Wednesday 21st Jun 2023 Factionalism in the Labour Party is shutting working-class people out
Monday 26th Sep 2022 The farcical return of the ‘trickle-down’ myth Truss and Kwarteng are determined to rerun failed free-market policies, but this time taken to new, devastating extremes that will see living standards in Britain slip behind eastern Europe, warns IAN LAVERY MP
Saturday 09th Jul 2022 Whoever is Tory leader will continue their four-decade war on the working class IAN LAVERY has no pity to spare for the charlatan leaving Downing Street – and says leadership will be found not in the Tory ranks but on the streets of Durham this weekend
Saturday 03rd Jul 2021 A perfect opportunity for Labour to develop bold new policies The result in Batley and Spen ought to galvanise the party leadership to set out its vision for the future – but there are few signs this will happen any time soon, says IAN LAVERY MP
Sunday 20th Jun 2021 Orgreave: when miners faced the full weight of the state Thatcher’s administration said it was an innocent bystander in a dispute between the NUM and the Coal Board — but the truth is that it was involved at the highest level in state repression against ordinary workers, writes IAN LAVERY
Monday 01st Mar 2021 Socialist policies are the way to avoid economic 'long Covid' – Labour mustn't shy away from them IAN LAVERY MP writes that research done by his organisation and polls nationally show that the only thing that reversed the decline of Labour's vote in constituencies like his were the bold progressive proposals of the Corbyn era
Friday 01st Jan 2021 No holding back: we in Labour need to be radical We must nurture working-class leaders and champion working-class communities inside the Labour Party and in general — and we will reach them only with a message that promises deep-seated change, argues IAN LAVERY MP
Saturday 07th Nov 2020 There is no future for Labour in bureaucratic centrism The left-behind masses that Labour must represent — both to be a progressive party and to win elections — will not be won over by anything other than a politics that promises radical change, writes IAN LAVERY
Saturday 19th Sep 2020 As after World War II, we can never go back The coronavirus has seen the state mobilised in support of its people in a way we were told was impossible. Just as the working class refused to go back to poverty after WWII, we must do the same now, writes IAN LAVERY
Friday 19th Jun 2020 On Orgreave's anniversary all working-class communities can unite against state violence IAN LAVERY on why justice for Orgreave is part of our struggle for justice today
Wednesday 15th Apr 2020 Labour must rebuild – and the left must lead the way We must ensure that we never allow an entitled party bureaucracy to overrule democratic decisions with a sneering disdain for those who made them, says IAN LAVERY