https://thecommunists.org/2023/03/29/news/nhs-pay-offer-exposes-limitations-trade-unionism-unison-rcn/

NHS pay offer exposes the limitations of trade unionism

https://thecommunists.org/2022/11/20/news/tribute-obituary-avtar-jouhl-iwa-cpgb-ml/

Tribute to Comrade Avtar Jouhl

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'The enemy within' football hooliganism and the miners' strike' 

During the 1980s Margaret Thatcher’s government attempted to reduce the economic power of the industrial working class by legislating against the trade unions and defeating the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike. At the time English football was an important part of male working-class culture, particularly for northern industrial workers and was under attack from the Government and Press over football hooliganism. It has often been argued that Thatcher’s trade union policies were designed to break the economic power of the industrial working class (Young, 1993, Richards 1996). If, through comparison, a link between this policy and the treatment of football supporters is found it will determine whether this conflict had a cultural aspect. Scholars such as Giulianotti (1985) and McArdle (2000) have anecdotally made this link but there has not been sufficient analysis of the comparison. Waiton (2012, 2014) also references the similarities in Thatcher’s description of football fans and strikers with the IRA but does not interrogate this in depth. This paper will address this and focus on the Government and press treatment of football and trade unions and assess whether the Government was seeking to bind the two issues together.


Tom Campbell is a maths teacher at the UCL Academy in North London, he completed his masters in history at Durham University for which he won the Richie Prize prize. Despite pursuing a career in education he has kept his hand in the sports history gamen and has spoken at various conferences over the last 3 years on topics such as the interaction between racism and boxing in regency England, the importance of memory in football fandom, the development of football stadia and the history of football hooliganism. He recently published 'The enemy within' football hooliganism and the miners' strike' in Sport in History which he also spoke on at last summers' BSSH conference.

Thomas Campbell - The Miners' Strike and 80s Football Violence

https://thecommunists.org/2023/05/20/news/the-real-trade-union-barons/

The real trade union barons

https://thecommunists.org/2023/09/13/news/joti-brar-anti-war-trade-union-struggle-against-bureaucracy/

Joti Brar: a personal account of anti-war struggle against the trade union bureaucracy

Betty Cook was a founding member of the Barnsley Miners Wives Action Group which led to the formation of The Woman Against Pit Closures in Barnsley. This interview was recorded in 2009 as part of The South Yorkshire Women In Industry lottery funded project.

It is being shared for the first time as part of Barnsley Museums' year-long programme of events marking 40 years since the Miners' Strike. For more details, visit our website http://www.experience-barnsley.com/strike40

#Strike40 Barnsley Women Against Pit Closures - Betty Cook

The miners' strike of 1984-85 demonstrated the power of the state acting in the interests of capital and against working people as jobs and mining communities were destroyed. That state power was no where more evident than the systematic attack on picketing miners at Orgreave with many injured and imprisoned. There were meticulous plans formulated by the government and the police to crush the miners. Orgreave became the blueprint for the policing of dissent and sent a harsh message to working class people that strike action would be met by the full force of the state. 40 years later those falsely arrested and injured are still waiting to see justice.

Podcast 110 - 40 Years Of Injustice - Anniversary Of The Miners Strike

https://thecommunists.org/2025/03/05/news/obituary-harpal-brar-revolutionary-founder-cpgb-ml/

Harpal Brar, revolutionary founder of the CPGB-ML

https://thecommunists.org/2025/05/05/news/communist-work-in-trade-unions-resolution/

Communist Work in the Trade Unions

Marxist analysis of current events and scientific socialist theoretical insights from the CPGB-ML. Get educated and get organised!

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