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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 “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 ...

By Sasha O’Neil Aberfan – it’s a name as resonant with tragedy for working class people in South Wales as Hillsborough is for Liverpool. For many the horror is all the greater because 116 of the 144 who died were young children. Like Hillsborough, Aberfan was a disaster that need never have happened. The coal waste tips that towered above ...