Workers Playtime on the miners' strike
Submitted by Dan Radnika on Apr 5 2015 11:53
Slightly too late for the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the 1984-85 miners' strike... Here are all the Workers' Playtime articles about the strike and related issues, with PDF and Kindle versions.
Polmaise: the fight for a pit - John McCormack and Simon Pirani
Submitted by Dan Radnika on Mar 21 2015 15:08
This short book/pamphlet was originally published in 1989. It was written by John McCormack, a miner (and NUM delegate) from the Polmaise pit in Scotland, with the the help of Simon Pirani.
Digging deeper: issues in the miners' strike - Huw Beynon
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 25 2015 18:46
A collection of articles by 17 different authors analysing the UK miners' strike in detail. It examines the issues at stake, the Tories' strategy, the role of the police and the courts, the miners and their supporters and families, and the TUC and the Labour Party. Published while the strike was still ongoing, in 1985.
South Wales miners strike xmas cards
Submitted by hellfrozeover on Mar 14 2013 21:41
Set of 4 Xmas cards produced by Rhymney Valley Miners Support Group in South Wales during the strike of 1984-85. Images on the outside and writing by miners on the inside. Black & white scans.
Neither nationalisation nor privatisation 1945-1950: An anarchist approach
Submitted by wojtek on Sep 8 2012 09:56
This volume is one of a set which celebrates the Freedom Press Centenary by reprinting articles from anarchist journals published by the press between October 1886 and October 1986. Neither Nationalisation Nor Privatisation demonstrates the anarchist stand against the postwar Labour Policies of industrial politicking by articles from Freedom 1945 - 1950. The ironies of popular capitalism that are now proceeding should make this illumination of the onset of the state monopolies a sparkling read for today.
The Lancashire coalfield 1945-1972: NUM-Labour Party hegemony and industrial change
Submitted by wojtek on Apr 10 2012 22:53
An article by Stephen Catterall on the colliery closures of the fifties and sixties in the Lancashire region and the relationship between the NUM and the Labour Party.
A climatic disorder? Class, coal and climate change - John Cunningham
At last November’s NUM convened conference, trade unionists and Climate Campers were invited to debate the explosive cocktail of (clean) coal, class and climate change. John Cunningham reports on the frustrating attempts to find a middle ground.
A year of our lives - 20 years since the great coal strike of 1984-1985
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 11 2007 11:19
Dave Douglass looks back on the great miners strike, twenty years on. Recalling information about the strike, the reasons behind it, the Tories' and Labour's attacks on the working class and finally how the strike was lost.
Notes on the miners strike, 1984-1985
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 11 2007 11:09
Notes on the strike of UK mine workers against closures and to save their union, the NUM. The article contains interesting information about the strike, its background, the aftermath and its importance to all workers in Britain.
Come and wet this truncheon - Dave Douglass
Submitted by Joseph Kay on Dec 3 2006 16:26
Classic pamphlet by miner and anarcho-syndicalist Dave Douglass on political policing during the British Miners’ Strike of 1984/5 - when the state acted like an occupying army in working class areas. First published in 1986.
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