“A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter; Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police spies." - Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848)Bernard Bradshaw along with his crew are caught in a sudden cave in. Within the dark confines of the unstable mine continuing to crumble Bernard finds Malcolm Armstrong helping disabled miner Olive...

“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.”― Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)Nikolai meets reporter Solomon Credge hoping he will help them publish an article about the communist movements strike. Credge threatens to blackmail Nikolai after having heard of his notoriety back in Russia, and the expens...

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." - Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848)In the final instalment of the Letters to Lenin series the men ( now devastated after Bernard's death ) decide to kidnap Clemence Reed and make him listen. However when they discover Mr Reeds business associates want him dead in order to inherit his coal empire, the men see an opportunity to further their union demands. When Nancy...

"Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The Proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of ALL countries, Unite!" - Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto (1848)As we rejoin the Salford mining community in the darkest time of British poverty, Oliver Spinks reveals that Horace Sampson’s family will not receive any compensation because of a new policy loophole leaving the family...