IT’S worth remembering, at least once a year, ­that Channel 4 owes its entire existence to Margaret Thatcher, who created the ...

In the Newport area, Simon Phillips and his colleagues put on over 200 shows during the course of the strike, in aid of the ...

EXCLUSIVE: One of Britain's most controversial MPs is referenced in the script and has a connection to the shocking events ...

THE former Yorkshire area vice president of the National Union of Mineworkers and a man who played a pivotal role during...

The first national miners’ strike since the General Strike of 1926 was called in January 1972 in support of a 25 per cent pay claim – 7.4 per cent had been offered. Strikers shut down each of ...

Tomorrow, Tuesday November 25, the Marx Memorial Library continues its series of discussions on the lessons of the miners’ strike with John Sheppard, a striking Armthorpe miner Last week Seumas Milne, ...

"My boyfriend worked at Cwm Coking works during the miners' strike. We were about to get married in the October and decided to go ahead with it anyhow, but obviously had to cut down on some things - ...

In the early 1980s, socialist soul punks Redskins pursued a staunchly committed left politics in pop later at odds with Labour's Red Wedge movement.

In 1984 the miners' strike threw coal-mining areas across the UK into industrial chaos and social upheaval. It contributed to a shift in the political landscape and, according to Billy Bragg ...

A lifelong advocate for workers, Mr Capstick, 83, died while visiting his daughter Julie in Bulgaria. After falling ill unexpectedly, he underwent an emergency operation but sadly did not recover.

during the epic miners’ strike of the 1980s. LGSM came together to support the British miners during the year-long strike of 1984-5. There were 11 LGSM groups throughout the country. London was the ...

The miners' strike of 1984-85, a year-long civil war and the UK's last significant industrial battle, marked a pivotal moment in the nation's political history. This event polarised the country ...