Stories of Solidarity

“This wonderful book is full of nostalgia, but shows how lessons in social solidarity and justice from the past can and must be projected into the future.” - Robert Gildea, Times Higher Education Supplement Historian, political activist and former Labour Member of Parliament Hywel Francis descibes and celebrates the struggles of the working class of the South Wales Valleys. He assesses whether its solidarity and collective memory will survive and re-invent itself. He also asks improtant questions about the current relevance of the miners’ strikes a nd the core values of the NHS. This book includes some of the author’s best writings and speeches over the past five decades and is an essential and indeed inspiring volume for all interested in recent Welsh social and political history.