Happy Birthday, Pete Seeger!
Today would have been Pete Seeger's birthday. We remember his contributions to song and socialism.
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Ending London’s Housing Nightmare
Unless Sadiq Khan can discover the courage to take on the profiteers driving London's housing emergency, his victory in today's mayoral election will mean little to the city's renters.
Jeremy Corbyn: Our Political Class Are Emboldening the Far Right
The Rwanda scheme is a repulsive election stunt from a government devoid of humanity. We must resist both the policy and the racist rhetoric that underpins it, writes Jeremy Corbyn.
Inequality Is the Price of Corporate Greed
Dividend payments to rich shareholders have grown 14 times faster than workers’ wages. This explosion in inequality is not an accident — it's the result of an economy designed to reward corporate greed.
Jamie Driscoll’s Challenge to Labour Is the Shape of Things to Come
While the Tories will receive a drubbing in this week’s local elections, Jamie Driscoll’s North East mayoral candidacy has captured much attention — and highlighted Labour's future electoral headaches, should Starmerism disappoint.
Rebuilding the Bonds
The miners' strike was sustained by a broad coalition that coalesced entire communities. Forty years on, we must rebuild the bonds of solidarity, learn the lessons of defeat and reilluminate the possibilities that went dark as the pit entrances swung back open.
Arthur Scargill: ‘I Can’t Spell the Word Compromise; I Never Have’
Faced with the wholesale destruction of pit communities, Britain’s miners and their supporters waged a struggle that has gone down as one of the most heroic moments in working-class history.
The Coalfield and the City
Despite being considered divorced from the coalfield communities in every imaginable way, the wave of enthusiasm shown for the miners’ struggle by London’s diverse workforces and communities proved to be a decisive form of support.
Workers of the World United
To advance the miners’ fight in Britain, some 6,000 Australian miners sacrificed their own jobs. Their heroic stance was one of many international actions in defence of British mining communities.
Women Against Pit Closures: ‘We Got On With It’
Against Thatcher’s plans to starve the miners back to work, the political and physical sustenance of the miners’ strike was wholly dependent on the skills and determination of thousands of working-class women.
‘There Was a Whole World We Were Fighting For’
Since the release of Pride a decade ago, the story of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners has become legendary. Now, in what’s likely to be its final year, members reflect on defeats and unexpected victories.
Easington Under Siege
The County Durham pit village of Easington spent the strike year as a miniature police state as officers flocked in to enforce Thatcher’s assault. Four decades on, the scars run deep.