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Mariela Castro and Mike Jackson at Havana Pride
by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
A STORY of life-changing activism, comradeship and defiance could have been lost forever, filed away in archives.
Instead, thanks to the award-winning film Pride, a book of the same name and the continued political commitment of its founders, the amazing tale of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) has reached millions across the world.
LGSM sprung into life in London in July 1984, four months into the year-long miners’ strike of 1984-85, as brainchild of Mark Ashton, a Young Communist League (YCL) member and later general secretary, who grew up in Portrush, Northern Ireland.
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners co-founder MIKE JACKSON talks to Matt Kerr about the enduring power of Pride, protest and trade unionism
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
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer