By John Pickard Continuing the theme of the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, here we look at a snapshot of the strike in southern
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Book review: the real women in M*A*S*H
By John Pickard M*A*S*H was a film, later turned into a popular TV series, that was broadcast from 1972 to 1983. It was based on a
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Glasgow May Day 2026: remembering the General Strike
By David Cartwright, Unite, Glasgow Retired Members’ Branch On Sunday 3 May a wide range of Glasgow Labour movement organisations and community campaign groups assembled
By Jamie Green The Cramlington Train Wreckers, a play by Ed Waugh, is a powerful story based around the Northumberland miners fighting to defend their
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1986: the Chernobyl nuclear disaster – part two
Part II: Heroism, half-truths and cover-ups In the second of a three-part article, CAIN O’MAHONY, who has worked in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, looks at
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The 1926 General Strike – an opportunity lost
By Cain O’Mahony A hundred years ago, just before midnight on May 3, began the biggest movement of organised workers in British history. It became the
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1986: the Chernobyl nuclear disaster – part one
Part I: the ticking time bomb In a three part article, CAIN O’MAHONY, who has worked in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, looks at the world’s
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1936-39: Palestine in revolt.
By Mike Kennard In 1936 Palestine was paralysed by a general strike which lasted from April to October and heralded 3 years of brutal suppression
Letter from Dave Putson I usually give the Daily Mail and its subsidiaries a wide berth, but it has been brought to my attention that
By Greg Oxley To mark the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the Easter Rising in Dublin 1916 we are publishing a political biography of
