Miners Strike

A year of our lives - 20 years since the great coal strike of 1984-1985 - Dave Douglass

Dave Douglass looks back on the great miners strike, twenty years on. Recalling information about the strike, the reasons behind it, the Tories' and Labour's attacks on the working class and finally how the strike was lost.

A year of our lives - 20 years since the great coal strike of 1984-1985

Notes on the miners strike, 1984-1985

Police attack miners at the Battle of Orgreave.

Notes on the strike of UK mine workers against closures and to save their union, the NUM. The article contains interesting information about the strike, its background, the aftermath and its importance to all workers in Britain.

Come and wet this truncheon - Dave Douglass

Classic pamphlet by miner and anarcho-syndicalist Dave Douglass on political policing during the British Miners’ Strike of 1984/5 - when the state acted like an occupying army in working class areas. First published in 1986.

A year of our lives - 20 years since the great coal strike of 1984-1985 - Dave Douglass

Notes on the miners strike, 1984-1985

Come and wet this truncheon - Dave Douglass

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