Arthur Scargill, the NUM President, was a man ready to wage a fierce and bitter campaign to protect his members' jobs ...

A Northumberland MP and county councillor look back over their experiences of Christmas during 1984's Miners' Strike.

FORMER miners turned out in force to hold their annual reunion in Grimethorpe last Thursday - marking the 40th anniversa...

The media eulogies of the former president, who died Sunday, are silent on his initiation of a frontal assault on the working ...

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, ...

Miners strike 1984: the beginning of a struggle that decided the future of many North East communities. The miners strike saw Margaret Thatcher and the Tory government lock horns with NUM ...

Recently, the people who went to Stonehenge gotta taste of what the miners saw daily in ’84. If there was one lesson learnt during the strike it was that if we really want to change this world, then ...

Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has claimed that a fear of being scapegoated by Arthur Scargill if miners lost their heroic 1984-85 strike was behind his startling inaction during the walkout. Mr ...

Special mention to Lochlan Murdoch for the fantastic work he does raising the awareness of type 1 diabetes through the charity set up in his name, and congratulations for the awards he collected at ...

Forty years after the miners’ strike, coalfield communities in Scotland - including Lothian - are still in need of support to recover from the legacy of pit closures, a new study has found.

A regional observance of Anthracite Mining Heritage Month takes place in January. A variety of programs will be featured in ...

New data show that coal companies' losses jumped 4.1 times between January and September this year to a staggering US$1.9 ...