Workers Playtime on the miners' strike
Polmaise: the fight for a pit - John McCormack and Simon Pirani
Digging deeper: issues in the miners' strike - Huw Beynon
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.
Poster for benefit for Phelps-Dodge and British miners - Libertarian Workers Group
A poster from a joint LWG (WSA) - RSL benefit for British and Phelps-Dodge miner strikes in NYC. Donated by NY WSA Library.
Beyond Thatcher : militant testimonies on miners’ struggles and British syndicalism from yesterday and today
This year, Margaret Thatcher’s death reminded us of the economic policies she initiated in Britain and her anti-social and anti-union fights. In the last months, Autre Futur [French syndicalist website and association] wished to go further and to conduct a series of interviews with different British unionists and syndicalists, about these past struggles but also about the present, in order to get a better grasp of issues which have emerged in recent decades.
The North Sea 3. Coal, oil and after
The third part of an interview with Neil Rothnie about North Sea oil workers’organisation.