Orgreave Rally 2024

September 28, 2023 Simon

ORGREAVE 40th ANNIVERSARY MARCH AND RALLY

Saturday 15 June 2024

Assemble 1pm

City Hall, Barkers Pool Sheffield S1 2JA

SUPPORT US IN OUR CAMPAIGN FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE

Come along and support the Annual Orgreave Rally organised by the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the police riot at Orgreave and celebrating the great Miners’ Strike of 1984/5.

Please bring your banners, placards, drums, whistles, family, comrades and friends.

Led by the Unite Brass Band, come and march with us through Sheffield City Centre and support our call for an inquiry for truth and justice for striking miners brutalised by the state and police at the Orgreave Coking plant on 18 June 1984.

SUPPORT OUR CALL FOR AN ORGREAVE INQUIRY

SPEAKERS:

Arthur Scargill – President of the National Union of Mineworkers, 1982 -2002

Maria Vasquez-Aguilar – Chile Solidarity Network/Chile 50 Years UK

Mick Whelan – General Secretary, ASLEF

Gareth Peirce – Lawyer for Orgreave miners

Taj Ali – Co-editor of Tribune Magazine

Rose Hunter – North Staffs Miners’ Wives Action Group

John Dunn – Arrested striking miner, Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign