Tower Colliery National Union of Mineworkers’ Lodge Secretary 1969-1994 • Tower Workers’ Cooperative Chair 1994-2023 By Mariam Kamish, Tower NUM Lodge Committee (personal capacity) and Socialist Party Wales Tyrone O’Sullivan became a household name in 1994, as the South Wales miner and trade unionist who led his members to a stunning victory when they stood up to Tory plans to ...

By Mariam Kamish Neil Stonelake, a prominent member of the Socialist Party in Rhondda Cynon Taff, passed away on Friday 12 August after a long illness. Neil grew up one of those extremely clever working class kids that the grammar school system was designed to poach away to the middle class. Only Neil wasn’t having that. He was too sceptical, ...

By Mariam Kamish “Thanks to Margaret Thatcher, who closed so many coal mines across the country, we had a big early start and we’re now moving rapidly away from coal altogether”. These are the words of the prime minister talking about the capitalist-fuelled climate crisis. Hearing Boris Johnson’s jeers about Thatcher’s pit closures, we should recall what he was up ...