The 1984-85 Miners' Strike pitted Thatcher against the male-dominated NUM. But the government's assault against mineworkers also saw women join pickets alongside men, defending their communities and changing the trade union movement for good.
Last month, Israel arrested over 2,000 Palestinians, subjecting them to degrading treatment that amounts to torture. The failure of our governments to demand the release of these hostages exposes their rank hypocrisy.
From Cairo to London, Israel's brutal assaults have spurred a return of mass politics confronting all forms of injustice. The simple truth is that none of us are free until Palestine is.
On this day in 1920, Irish revolutionary Kevin Barry was hanged at just eighteen years of age. Immortalised in song, his execution became an international cause — and fanned the flames of rebellion.
When thousands of Palestinians are being massacred by weapons built in Britain, our labour movement must answer the call for solidarity from Palestinian workers: to end all complicity in Israel's war on Gaza.
In an attempt to hide warehouse accidents from media investigations, Amazon workers allege the company is instructing injured workers not to phone 999 and to make their own way to the hospital.
The violence being perpetrated by Israeli forces in Gaza is a grotesque crime against humanity — and one we must demand is stopped immediately, writes Labour MP Andy McDonald.
As council after council declares bankruptcy, the media treats them as isolated scandals — but the reality is a system buckling under the weight of rising costs and funding cuts.
Well-funded public transport is an obvious solution to climate change, the cost-of-living crisis, and crumbling infrastructure. The establishment is determined to make it a cash cow instead.
By refusing to borrow or raise taxes, Labour is betting all its chips on growth to fund public spending — with no credible plan to stimulate it.
If you want to understand why nothing in Britain works anymore, look no further than the free market economics that have put the country on a path to national decline.
Hakim Adi, Britain's first black History professor, has been made redundant and his groundbreaking course on the history of Africa has been axed. This is nothing short of an attack on black academia.