Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF)

for diverse, democratic and accountable media

for diverse, democratic and accountable media

Women, The Miner’s Strike and The Media: Lessons for Our Troubled Times

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THURSDAY 22 NOVEMBER 7.30PM–ADMISSION FREE Tyneside Irish Centre, 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4SG This public meeting looks at media coverage of the miners’ strike, the role of women in the strike and afterwards, and unfinished business from the strike in the call by the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign for a public inquiry into the policing at Orgreave on … [Read more...]

The North Remembers: The Battle of Orgreave

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Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign

Some basic facts bear repeating. The gap between rich and poor in the UK was at its narrowest in the 1970s, a decade when trade unionism was at its strongest. In 2018 there is an obscene gap between those flaunting great wealth and working people battered by austerity and privatisation. We have the prospect of millions of people working in low-wage or zero-hour contract … [Read more...]