#OnThisDay 1984. Arthur Scargill addresses miners as the #MinersStrike is declared official under Rule 41.

UK #MentalHealth Facts:

🎯 Poverty and ill health are connected. That includes mental illness.

🎯 NHS mental health services are not overrun by the worried well. NHS is struggling to provide decent care for people with severe, debilitating mental illness.

Facts matter!

#OnThisDay 1984. Yorkshire miner, Stan Whitworth, explains how the #MinersStrike is affecting his family.

‘I warn all trade unionists — if they don’t support the miners, when it comes to your turn, there will be nobody left to defend you because the police paramilitary operation would have succeeded.’ - Arthur Scargill

The Miners' Strike began on this day 40 years ago.

“I say to the people of Britain, if you stand aside while miners are beaten to the ground by a paramilitary police force in riot gear - what they do to us today they’ll do to you tomorrow”

#OnThisDay 1984. Arthur Scargill speaks about #Orgreave

The decision to strike in protest of the closure of Cortonwood is announced at Barnsley NUM office #OnThisDay 1984.

Photo credit: M Jenkinson Images

SCARF is 40 this year- thanks to our donors, clients and families, staff, collaborators, media , friends and colleagues who have stood by us all these years.

Losing John Pilger is a blow to progressive movements & causes across the globe. He was what journalism should always be about - eloquent honesty. This Tribute to John Pilger by ⁦Andrew Fisher follows that Pilger principled approach. RIP John labourhub.org.uk/2024/01/01/a-t…

It is with great sadness the family of John Pilger announce he died yesterday 30 December 2023 in London aged 84. His journalism and documentaries were celebrated around the world, but to his family he was simply the most amazing and loved Dad, Grandad and partner. Rest In Peace.

We send our condolences to the family and friends of the legendary filmmaker and activist John Pilger, who has sadly passed away aged 84.

RIP.

‘It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.’

Happy birthday Professor Noam Chomsky — legendary American public intellectual, radical political theorist, linguist, author and educator, born on this day in 1928.

Happy birthday, Tom Waits - 74 years old today

'Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em.”

“When I hear politicians saying that we are being 'flooded' by refugees, I always remind myself that each 'refugee' is a person, a person who for some reason left everything they love to find safety in a strange, and sometimes hostile, country.”

Rest in power, Benjamin Zephaniah

Happy Birthday wishes to legendary American musician, composer, songwriter, and actor Tom Waits🎂🎉 🎶'Chicago'

It is shocking that King's College London remains silent in the face of #genocide in #Gaza . I have written this letter to our President Shitij Kapur demanding him to publicly call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and for freedom and justice for Palestinians. #CeasefireNOW

Great ⁦Bruce Springsteen⁩ met Shane last May

Good of MUFC to open up Old Trafford as warm hub again this winter. Anyone can go to the Red Cafe on a Monday (starting 4th Dec) 5-8pm to stay warm, talk to others, enjoy complimentary drinks and snacks. You don't need to be lonely.

Right on Tommy!