Tag Archives: Miners' strike

By Dave Griffiths ‘Coal not dole’ was the cry across Britain as 180,000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in 180 pits began walking out on strike in March 1984. It became a long, bitter industrial dispute – a whole year – fought with enormous courage and elan by miners, the biggest workers’ struggle for generations. Fought not ...

By Mariam Kamish “Thanks to Margaret Thatcher, who closed so many coal mines across the country, we had a big early start and we’re now moving rapidly away from coal altogether”. These are the words of the prime minister talking about the capitalist-fuelled climate crisis. Hearing Boris Johnson’s jeers about Thatcher’s pit closures, we should recall what he was up ...