Due to being all chilled and zen I've decided to watch Miners Strike: Frontline Story on iPlayer. I'm gonna be in a grumpy rage very quickly I think.
#tory #thatcher #MinersStrike #bbc #iplayer #ClassPolitics #WorkingClass #ukpolitics
The TV News edited the footage to make it look like the Miners had attacked the police first.
#Police #PoliceViolence #Orgreave #MinersStrike
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Und schließlich noch ein Blick in die Geschichte: Der britische #MinersStrike stand für die große Niederlage im letzten Gefecht der Arbeiter*innenklasse. 40 Jahre später wissen wir: Das letzte Gefecht war er nicht – aber was dann? (Von 2024)
A Day in Cardiff
I got up at Stupid O’Clock this morning to catch an early morning plane from Dublin to Cardiff. It was very cold when I arrived but it soon warmed up and turned into a lovely day.
I had a nice breakfast at Bill’s when I arrived in the City then did tour of the National Museum of Wales where there is an exhibition about the Miners’ Strike of 1984/5, from which this display case caught my attention:
I also had time for a round of Name That Artist (scoring a miserable 3/12, for Sutherland, Ernst, and Magritte).
After that, I took a stroll around Bute Park before heading to my hotel in Cardiff Bay to check in and have a rest before the reason for my visit, an event which will take place here at 7pm:
I won’t be able to blog about that until I get back to Maynooth tomorrow afternoon.
#Art #Cardiff #CardiffBay #MinersStrike #NationalMuseumOfWales #WalesMillenniumCentre
Miners Strike 40th Anniversary: McVicar Memorial Lecture We were invited along to attend the Scottish Socialist Party's Memorial Lecture. Alex Shanks gave a passionate account of his experiences a young 19 year old miner during the strike. He got arrested three times! Then Richie Venton, author of Class War on Workers, explored the strike’s lasting impact on the working class.
In the blunted night of the coal shed,
without a torch, my fingers dig
among the coal for the coal.
Hear it scutter into the bucket…
—Brian McCabe, “Coal”
published in BODY PARTS, @canongatebooks 1999
The 1984–85 UK miners’ strike was officially called off 40 years ago #OTD, 3 March, 1985. It remains the longest-running strike in British history without a positive outcome.
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/coal/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #mining #coalmining #minersstrike #workingclasshistory
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