Miners' strike 1984-85

• Intransigently brave April 6 2006
  Mark Fischer remembers Paul Whetton, a former member of the CPGB and an outstanding rank and file miners’ leader during the Great Strike of 1984-85, who died on March 3
• Solidarity squandered March 25 2004
  In the third of his series of articles on the miners' Great Strike, Ian Donovan examines the support the miners received from other elements of the working class, and the political opportunities to build on this missed
• Pickets, ballots and workers’ defence March 18 2004
  Ian Donovan continues his series on the miners’ Great Strike of 1984-85 by examining the key tactical and political questions
• Strategic confrontation in the making March 11 2004
  In the first of a series of articles Ian Donovan examines the background to the miners’ Great Strike
• Opening the second front March 25 2004
  When the dockers walked out on unofficial strike in July 1984, for a time the miners seemed to have victory within their grasp. Alan Stevens, then a union militant in London docks, recalls the decisive moments
• Of course it was political March 18 2004
  The miners’ Great Strike marked a crossroads. Its defeat had profound political consequences. Dave Douglass, branch secretary of Hatfield Main National Union of Mineworkers, spoke to the March 14 Communist Forum
• Good pictures, wrong conclusions March 11 2004
  David Douglass, Doncaster NUM panel picket coordinator and area executive member during the Great Strike, reviews Socialist Worker’s special issue, ‘The miners’ strike 1984-85’