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The Battle of Orgreave is the name given to a confrontation between police and picketing miners at a British Steel coking plant in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, in 1984, during the UK miners' strik...
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The miners strike of 1984-85 will always be remembered in British working class history as the most significant turning point in the power relationship between the working class organisations of the trade unions, and the state representing the interests of the privileged minority in the late twentieth century.
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libcom.org/library/notes-on-the-miners-strike-1984-1985
libcom.org/library/notes-on-the-miners-strike-1984-1985
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There was much support for the strike in South Wales, although a taxi driver was killed when a block of concrete was dropped on his car from a bridge, as he drove a miner to work near Merthyr. ... Adeney, Martin. The Miners` Strike, 1984-85: loss without limit. (Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1986).
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www.agor.org.uk/cwm/themes/events/1984_strike.asp
www.agor.org.uk/cwm/themes/events/1984_strike.asp
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Images from the 1984/85 Miners' Strike ... In 1984 I spent 12 months photographing the Miners' Strike in the UK. The dispute started when the Conservative government, led by Margaret Thatcher, announced the closure of Cortonwood Colliery in Yorkshire. This was to be the first of 20 pit closures with the loss of 20,000 jobs.
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www.strike84.co.uk/
www.strike84.co.uk/
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Just as the Conservative government was prepared to use brute force against the miner's strike during 1984/85, so they demand that Labour must be seen to ... The pro-Blair Mirror newspaper complained that "these pickets are the right-wing equivalent of the wildcat strikers who were once such a threat to British industry",
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www.wsws.org/articles/2000/nov2000/fuel-n08.shtml
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................The Miners' Strike of 1984-85 -- the "longest epic of collective resistance in the annals of British labour" (Anderson 1992, 179) -- caused violent divisions within the working-class and in British society generally.2 But it also occasioned a remarkable mobilisation of popular support for labour...
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www.strikingdistance.com/sd9705/c3i_3/james/miner01.htm...
www.strikingdistance.com/sd9705/c3i_3/james/miner01.html
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In 1982 she ordered British troops to the Falkland Islands to retake them from Argentina. She took a strong stand against the trade unions during the miner's strike (1984-85), and moved Britain toward privatization, selling minor interests in public utilities to the business interests.
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www.britannia.com/gov/primes/prime56.html
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There’s a lot in the news today about the 1984 Miners’ Strike; - a milestone in our history that seems like only yesterday.; Where did all that time go? How things have changed… or have they? Few British mines and miners any more.
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www.thebritishcitizen.com/2009/03/remember-miners-strik...
www.thebritishcitizen.com/2009/03/remember-miners-strike-1984/
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Ex-miner John Church champions the former president of the NUM and takes issue with Francis Beckett and David Hencke’s history of the 1984 strike ... There are few reminders of the industry which 25 years ago employed almost 70,000 miners in South Yorkshire alone, the backbone of British trade unionism.
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www.thecnj.co.uk/review/2009/031909/books031909_02.html
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