Tag: miners strike
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so near so far: a history of the british miners part 2 (2005)
Continued from part 1 Chapter 15: September – October 1984 2nd dockers strike…TUC Brighton Conference…pathetic Leftism… …niceness and urgency…Contradictions of the NUM…. …More attacks on NCB property and on cops… …Thatcher almost caves in…IRA bombs Thatcher… …unpublished leaflet…NACODS and the almost strike… …MI5’s dirty tricks…Thatcher almost lost…almost almost… September saw the second national dock strike, called in…
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so near – so far: a history of the british miners, part 1 (2005)
pdf of both parts (163 A4 pages in total): so near so far A better pdf is available to anyone who writes to me to ask for it (it’s too long to be able to be uploaded onto this site) A Selective History of Miners’ (and a few other) Struggles Up To…