Title: The Great Strike, the miner's strike of 1984-5 and its lessons
Photographer(s): John Sturrok
Writer(s): Alex Callinicos, Mike Simons
Designer(s): Peter Court
Publisher(s): Social Workers London, London, England
Year: 1985
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Language(s): English
Pages: 256
Size: 15 x 21 cm
Binding: Softcover
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Print: Krips Repro, Meppel, The Netherlands
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: England, 1984-1985
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The Miners’ Strike of 1984 was a turning point in British history. Miners left their pits to fight the attempt of the Thatcher government to close the collieries, break the miners’ union and the labour movement in general, and open the way to a free market economy in which deregulated financial capitalism would be set free by the Big Bang of 1986. The full force of the police, the courts and the media were mobilised to defeat the miners, culminating with the battle of Orgreave on 18 June 1984. Thousands of miners were arrested, fined, imprisoned or sacked, some never to work again.
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