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Paul dean remembers the struggle he supported 30 years ago - the great miners' strike of 1984-85 whose story is retold in a new documentary film. Anyone who has been on a demonstration in britain and seen the spectacular banners of the miners' unions will have been in awe of them.
Paul dean remembers the struggle he supported 30 years ago--the great british miners' strike of 1984-85, whose story is retold in a new documentary film.
Buzzfeed staff in the bottom of the seventh inning of monday night's diamondbacks-reds game, cincinnati second baseman brandon phillips was hit in the knee by a pitch.
Now, 30 years later, the secret is out, and it’s clear why he was eager for the information not to become public.
Ex-miner paul kelly it was one of the toughest years of ex-miner paul kelly’s life, but 30 years on from the bitter end of the strike, he says he has no regrets.
At a 30th-anniversary conference at king’s college london this year, neil kinnock, still scarred by the torments inflicted on him by the strike, and john monks, at the time head of the congress house industrial relations department, described their efforts through the summer and early autumn of 1984 to persuade scargill to overcome his insistence that no pit could close on economic grounds.
But it’s 30 years since the miners’ strike; it’s time we stopped grumbling and looked for some positives. Because it may have condemned generations to poverty and despair but we did gain the flying pickets. And let’s not forget the glory of ebbw vale garden festival.
28 oct 2020 the miners' strike of 1984-5 is a site of contested memories. Participants and on the release of official records in light of the 'thirty year rule'.
8 feb 2016 for the first time for 30 years he re-opened his file marked “miners' of those on strike in withstanding for a year the full force of the british state.
Miners strike - 30 years on: 'we won't stop till we've got justice' ex-yorkshire main official frank arrowsmith is still seeking justice for the battering his pit community got in the strike.
Twenty years after the miners' strike of 1984-85 new class battles are today being prepared in britain. Bosses invest in defeating the miners when thatcher's tory party came to office in 1979 they were still smarting from their humiliation at the hands of the miners' strikes of 1972 and 1974.
The strike was officially called to a halt on march the 3rd 1985. The pit closures the miners had fought so hard to prevent began in earnest. In 1984 there were 174 deep coal mines in the uk by 1994 – the year the industry was finally privatized – there were just 15 left.
20 mar 2014 some 30 years on, some of those mining communities are still suffering the impact of the job losses.
Photographs by michael nearly 30 years after the strike, he returned to record the changes.
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A miners' strike that started in yorkshire in early march 1984 and within days saw half the country's mineworkers walk out in protest at pit closures, ended thirty years ago on march 3 with.
After 30 years, and with its cause long lost, the miners' strike should be receding into history. But on returning to the durham pit village where she grew up, anne mcelvoy finds that the struggle.
Three decades on and the effects of britain's infamous industrial struggle are still being felt.
A look at the british coal industry prior to the miners’ strike in a normal free market environment, supply and demand determines success. In the united states, for example, individual people, acting in their own self-interest and according to their own personal enjoyment, decided that it was better to live in the suburbs and drive an automobile.
The miners' strike: it's 30 years today since the end of the 1984-85 dispute. How the year-long miners' strike ended on this day in 1985, and was the prelude to the death of the coal industry.
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Miners' strike 30 years on: 'i fought not just for “my pit” but for the community' approaching the pit gates at markham maine in armthorpe near doncaster.
4 mar 2014 miners' strike: 30 years of the fallout it started in yorkshire and within days half the country's miners had walked out in protest at pit closures.
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When thatcher threatened pit closures, strikes began across the country until the national union of miners (num) called a national strike.
25 mar 2014 march 12 marked 30 years since the beginning of the miners' strike that lasted almost a year.
The nationwide strike was a last attempt by the mining unions to save the industry after the national coal board announced 20 pits in england would have to close with the loss of 20,000 jobs.
John mitchell, who at the age of 28 became president of the united mine against william jennings bryan under the slogan of four years more of the full dinner pail.
9 nov 2015 the 1984/5 miners' strike remains one of the most controversial and emotive periods of modern british history.
After successful strikes in 1972 and 1974 which prevented pit closures, calls were made for strikes in the early 1980s, eventually leading to the strike of 1984-1985. Miners across yorkshire began strike action and on 12 march, a national strike was declared by the num, but no official vote was held.
2 mar 2015 miners' strike 30 years on: diary of nottinghamshire picket dennis skinner labelled ''tower of strength''.
Today the underground mines are no more but several hundred strip miners are represented by the umwa. Among other things they negotiated may day as a paid holiday in the union contract — a rarity in north america. Many in bienfait call it “gemby day” after peter gemby, a local strike leader blacklisted for ten years after 1931.
It is twenty-five years since the massive year long miners' strike in britain. Nearly 120,000 workers spent an entire year on strike from march 1984 to march 1985. Today we return to look at this strike not as an abstract academic piece of history, but as an opportunity for workers and communists to draw what lessons we can from the strike.
Bert smith, 73, from cumnock, was a miner for almost 30 years before being sacked during the strike. “my two girls had just left school and my son was unemployed at the time, so it was really.
3 jul 2014 educational aspirations drop 30 years on, says researcher. Are still being affected by the year-long miners' strike which began 30 years ago,.
Thirty years ago today, the miners’ strike of 1984-85 came to a formal end, and in the days after the national union of mineworkers decided to end the dispute, men across scotland went gloomily down the pits knowing their industry was doomed.
30 years after the miners’ strike – in search of arthur scargill #sundayraeding as the anniversary of the 1984 miners’ strike approaches, its figurehead arthur scargill has become a recluse, at war with the current num leadership.
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The strike occurred after wage negotiations between the num and the national coal board of the united kingdom had broken down. It was the first time since 1926 that british miners had officially gone on strike (although there had been unofficial strikes, as recently as 1969).
The pretext of the strike was a very modest proposal by ian macgregor, head of the national coal board, to close, over a period of time, just 20 of britain’s 170 coal mines with the loss of 20,000 jobs, spread across northern england, scotland and wales, undoubtedly difficult for those communities affected, but peanuts compared with what.
30 years on: the great miners' strike tories want ten percent of miners on the dole - now is the time to fight the tories want to put at least one in every ten miners on the dole.
And mind, in those years, we were only working about half time. But in the fall of that year one of my brothers struck a gas feeder. He was hurled downward in the breast and covered with the rush of coal and rock.
The following year, shortly after the strike ended, a confidential report into the bbc's journalism and the miners' strike was produced for internal purposes not for public consumption.
But a political battle about why the miners went down to defeat has raged in the 30 years since the strike ended.
Today marks 30 years since the start of the miners’ strike where more than a thousand workers at two north wales coal pits became embroiled in the most bitter industrial dispute in recent memory.
For arthur scargill, it was a fight to save jobs; for margaret thatcher, it was an attack on democracy.
March 12 marked 30 years since the beginning of the miners’ strike that lasted almost a year. The industrial action was called after prime minister margaret thatcher planned to close 20 pits, which the government and national coal board said were uneconomical.
Nottinghamshire miners voted against strike action, yet were still picketed mercilessly for 12 months, with violence and intimidation common. The udm was designed to restore order and democracy back into the hands of the workers, to be a union which would not be dominated by an extremist leadership.
3 mar 2015 it's 30 years ago today since striking miners called off their epic “there should be an inquiry into the policing of the strike in scotland,” said.
The 1984-5 miners’ strike continues to excite controversy and debate as well as new books. Hardly surprising this, as the strike was the last time when the establishment’s grip on power was seriously challenged.
9 aug 2017 the former president of what was the largest mining union in south derbyshire says he finally feels vindicated 30 years on from the miners'.
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