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How the ’84 miners’ strike was organised
David Ayrton looks forward to an event at the Marx Memorial Library with striking miner John Sheppard
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Tomorrow, Tuesday November 25, the Marx Memorial Library continues its series of discussions on the lessons of the miners’ strike with John Sheppard, a striking Armthorpe miner
Last week Seumas Milne, speaking on the miners and the state, outlined the unprecedented scale of state mobilisation against the miners and their leadership.
The NUM had no choice but to fight. The viciousness of the British state operation against the NUM was a battle over class and political power whose outcomes still shape British and world history after 30 years.
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