Almost 40 years on, the #MinersStrike still casts a long shadow over #UKPolitics today -

#NUM #NCB
#ToryPoliciesInAction #NastyParty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/27/40-years-miners-strike-long-shadow-uk-politics-pit-closures?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I keep a record of the books I read over the year and am going to attempt tooting them this year. 1. The book to accompany the film. It’s an oral history so quick to read and gives the clearest examples I’ve read recently about how the State was conspiring against the miners as well as gay history. A great book. #2023books #AmReading #MinersStrike #Pride #LGSM

Stailcearan, mar a bha is mar a tha.
Strikers, from the past and present.

#Teachers #Education #CostOfGreedCrisis #Scotland #MinersStrike #ToryRule #Gaelic #NASUWT #PublicServices

Absolutely brilliant film
#BrassedOff
#MinersStrike

https://youtu.be/Fzu-YFHqfMc

Professor or collier, a scab is a scab. They undermine us. Summed up appropriately by Pitmen Poets
https://youtu.be/NJmF2uXKBbc
#MinersStrike
#ucuRISING

My first strike 1984 #MinersStrike. My latest strike 2022 #ucuRISING . Nothing f@cking changes.

@adamgreenfield Yep. Hardly recognise myself! Altho was quite active as a student but that was understandable.... #Thatcher #MinersStrike years!

RT @Miners_Strike
#OnThisDay 1984. Labour leader Neil Kinnock says he is too busy to speak at a series of rallies in support of the #MinersStrike

RT @Miners_Strike@twitter.com

Solidarity with the miners!

Asian Youth Movement during the #MinersStrike

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Miners_Strike/status/1543123990205632512

Freedom and the 1974 Miners’ Strike
Jack Saundrs looks over some recent additions to Freedom's extensive digital archive, which draws together unique scans and mirrored works to create a sizeable library of the paper's historic works. The 1974 papers set was first scanned by the excellent Sparrows' Nest.

Between 1970 and 1974 Britain experienced a peak in worker militancy. There were
https://freedomnews.org.uk/freedom-and-the-1974-miners-strike/
#1974 #Freedomnewspaper #MinersStrike