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When labour history is told, women are often reduced to footnotes.The reality is different.Women have led strikes, organ...
17/06/2026

When labour history is told, women are often reduced to footnotes.

The reality is different.

Women have led strikes, organised communities, challenged employers and transformed movements.

The task isn't to rediscover women in struggle. It's to tell the story properly.

Join us this Thursday in Brighton for the launch of A Woman's Place Is in the Struggle — a new project by Judith Cazorla celebrating the women who've always fought back, from Dagenham to Orgreave and beyond.

📍 Mercure Seafront Hotel, Brighton
🕖 Thursday 18 June

All Manifesto Press books will be 50% off on the night.

This year's Orgreave Anniversary March and Rally took place at a pivotal moment. With the Orgreave Inquiry now underway,...
15/06/2026

This year's Orgreave Anniversary March and Rally took place at a pivotal moment. With the Orgreave Inquiry now underway, questions that campaigners, miners and their families have pursued for decades are finally being examined in public.

The demand is no longer to simply remember what happened, but to ensure that the historical record is fully opened, scrutinised and preserved for future generations.

Among those attending was Manifesto Press author Hilary Cave, whose book, Recollections of a Miners' Strike, offers a powerful account of the struggle from the perspective of those who lived it.

ORGREAVE. 42 years on, the demand remains the same: Truth and Justice.This Saturday, 13 June, join the Annual Orgreave A...
12/06/2026

ORGREAVE. 42 years on, the demand remains the same: Truth and Justice.

This Saturday, 13 June, join the Annual Orgreave Anniversary March and Rally in Sheffield, organised by the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign. Manifesto Press author Hilary Cave will be in attending in solidarity.

📍 City Hall, Barkers Pool, Sheffield S1 2JA
🕧 Assemble 12:30pm | March starts 1:00pm

We march to honour the miners of 1984 and ’85, remember the violence at Orgreave on 18 June 1984, and demand the inquiry that has been denied for decades.
Ex-miners, trade unionists, families, comrades and supporters will take to the streets with banners and placards to keep alive the fight for truth, accountability and justice.

📚 All Manifesto Press books will be available at HALF PRICE throughout the event.

History does not stand still — and neither does the struggle for justice.

Too many women get told to sit down and listen. Not on our watch.Manifesto Press is launching 'A Woman's Place Is in the...
12/06/2026

Too many women get told to sit down and listen. Not on our watch.

Manifesto Press is launching 'A Woman's Place Is in the Struggle' – a new project by Judith Cazorla. Podcasts, publications, and live events across Britain celebrating the women who've always fought back. From Dagenham to Orgreave. And involving the next generation of activists.

First up, a launch night in Brighton. 18 June. 7.30pm.

Free registration through link in bio.

50% off all books available on sale at the event.

Project by Manifesto Press, launch sponsored by the Morning Star.

Bring your union branch. Bring your mates.

Too many women get told to sit down and listen. Not on our watch.Manifesto Press is launching 'A Woman's Place Is in the...
10/06/2026

Too many women get told to sit down and listen. Not on our watch.

Manifesto Press is launching 'A Woman's Place Is in the Struggle' – a new project by Judith Cazorla. Podcasts, publications, and live events across Britain celebrating the women who've always fought back. From Dagenham to Orgreave. And involving the next generation of activists.

First up, a launch night in Brighton. 18 June. 7.30pm.

Free registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-womans-place-is-in-the-struggle-tickets-1991361727533?aff=oddtdtcreator

Project by Manifesto Press, launch sponsored by the Morning Star.

Bring your union branch. Bring your mates. More details soon

Cultures in Resistance (CiR) just got very interesting. Started by the Hans Hess Foundation at Wortley Hall in Yorkshire...
08/06/2026

Cultures in Resistance (CiR) just got very interesting. Started by the Hans Hess Foundation at Wortley Hall in Yorkshire, CiR recently completed a three day event in Johannesburg. Collaborating with The Forge, Inkani and The Commune, to bring out the CiR dimension of South Africa.

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23/05/2026

Recollection of the Great Miners Strike - author Hilary Cave explains how important it is for workers to organise and take up the struggle. Without opposition, the government and employers will continue to impoverish our communities, asset strip our public services and stitch insecurity into the very fabric of our lives.

Manifesto Press has launched the chapter covering Orgreave, taken from Hilary’s book and read by her, as a free download on Bandcamp, which you can listen to here
https://manifestopress.bandcamp.com/album/recollections-of-the-miners-strike

Manifesto Press backs author Hilary CaveAs the Government Inquiry into policing of the Miners' Strike examines the viole...
21/05/2026

Manifesto Press backs author Hilary Cave

As the Government Inquiry into policing of the Miners' Strike examines the violence at Orgreave, Manifesto Press confirms that its author, Hilary Cave, has submitted her book 'Recollections of the Miners' Strike' as evidence. Hilary was present. She is an authoritative witness.

A worker, not a campaigner, she took a day's holiday to travel to the plant on a miners' bus. That bus was stopped short of its secret destination – police appeared to know the plan in advance.

At Orgreave, Hilary witnessed police assaulting pickets from the start, often on the head. Riot shields and drawn truncheons faced unarmed pickets. Retreating miners standing still offered no threat – yet police parted to let mounted officers gallop through, clubbing fleeing men. A man with a fractured skull was taken from hospital back to police cells.

Hilary Cave is a primary source. Manifesto Press has urged the Inquiry to treat her evidence with full seriousness.

20/05/2026

Talking Red Media. You can view and listen to the latest podcast hosted by Manifesto Press author and international editor of the daily newspaper The Morning Star, Roger McKenzie. In this special edition, Roger interviews Anita Halpin, chair of the Hans Hess Foundation who speaks about her family history and the reason that the Foundation was established.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh15Ritu20s

STRIKE! An event that has caught public attention. The General Strike centenary proves that history does not stand still...
19/05/2026

STRIKE! An event that has caught public attention. The General Strike centenary proves that history does not stand still. 100 years ago the miners faced a concerted employer and government assault. Today, that assault - a product of the profiteering, waste and greed at the heart of the capitalist system - is affecting everyone, everywhere.

Read more in Strike! Selected writings from Tom Mann, JT Murphy, Tom Wintringham and Harry Pollitt, written in the midst of the action. With a foreword by new Communist Party general secretary Alex Gordon.

Available now at 🔗 https://www.manifestopress.studio/booked/p/strike

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