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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.
They know what really happened that day in June 1985 at the height of the year-long miners’ strike. In 2016, then-Home Secretary Amber Rudd signalled her readiness for an inquiry
Nearly 40 years after the miners’ strike, this history based on the oral testimonies of 100 miners and their families should serve as a warning for future generations
Hundreds of thousands of workers are walking out together next week – the latest wave in Britain’s strike tsunami. Not since the 1970s has the country seen such levels of industrial action. We must learn the lessons from this period of struggle.
In his latest return to the picketing front-line, the 84-year-old pensioner this time stood with museum staff in Wakefield locked in a bitter pay dispute with the National Coal Mining Museum for England.