Pictured: Jeremy Corbyn MP addressing the 131st Durham Miners’ Gala, 11th July 2015. The Durham Miners’ Association fully supports Jeremy Corbyn in his bid to become the next leader of the Labour Party. DMA General Secretary Dave Hopper said: ”The Durham miners are backing Jeremy because he has a long track record of standing up […]

Pictured: Dave Hopper, DMA Secretary addresses the 131st Durham Big Meeting, 11th July 2015. It is my privilege, once again, to welcome all miners, their families and supporters from the wider trade union and labour movement to the 131st Durham Miners’ Gala.  Despite all the attempts by the Tory press and media to write us out […]

Pictured: Clement Attlee addressing the Big Meeting in 1936 In 2008, the world financial system failed, creating a crisis, economists tell us, far more dangerous than the crisis of 1929. Consequently, the economy of the advanced capitalist countries has entered the longest period of stagnation for a century and the Greek economy is teetering on the […]

Statement on behalf of Durham Miners’ Association Executive Committee: It is with great sadness that we have to announce the death of our Secretary, Dave Hopper, who died unexpectedly on Saturday 16 July at 4.00pm. Dave was elected General Secretary of the NUM (Durham Area) in 1985 and led the union through the difficult years in […]

Pictured: Alun Armstrong and Dave Hopper at Marras launch event Ahead of the 131st Durham Miners’ Gala, the Durham Miners Association have called on all our friends to show their support for the Gala by becoming a marra of the Big Meeting. At the launch event at Durham Town Hall with County Durham born actor […]

At the inivitation of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), the DMA joined with other trade unions on the TUC contingent at this year’s London Pride march. It was a brilliant occasion with nearly 1 million people marching together in solidarity on the streets of London. The DMA look forward to welcoming our friends […]

Pictured: DMA President Alan Cummings addressing the Big Meeting DMA President Alan Cummings slams the current Work Capability Assessment (WCA) programme and calls on Labour to demand that it is scrapped. American company Maximus took control of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) programme from the now discredited ATOS on 2 March this year and already […]

On February 28, the DMA Executive Committee joined over 3,000 anti-racist marchers in Newcastle to protest against a 200-strong PEGIDA demonstration – the first to be organised in Britain. PEGIDA is a German right-wing organisation that claims to campaign against the so-called ‘‘Islamisationof Europe’’. Like the English Defence League, PEGIDA is a front organisation for […]

The Durham Miners’ Association is totally opposed to underground coal gasification (UCG) on the North East Coast. Previous tests have proved that underground UCG is dangerous and highly toxic to both people and the environment and has never been successfully implemented anywhere in the world on a commercial scale despite nearly a 100 years of […]

All those who were eagerly waiting for a typical barnstorming Skinner speech were not disappointed. Referring to the millions of trades unionists that had taken action on the 10th July, he said with due emphasis and to great applause: ‘I say it loud and clear, if any Labour MP asks the question are strikes necessary? […]