Documenting and misrepresenting the 1984-85 British Miners Strike wsws.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wsws.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
To give a truthful account of the strike would require that Scargill address its sabotage not just by the NUM areas leadership and NACODS but by the entire trade union bureaucracy, led by the Trades Union Congress, which left miners to fight alone for an entire year. And he would have to address the role of the Labour Party, whose leader Neil Kinnock was a notorious opponent of the strike.
A new exhibition by the Martin Parr Foundations sets out to explode cliches and explore the realities of the 1984-5 Miners' Strike, an event that ripp.