With #Orgreave in the news, we’re very proud to live nearby. Regularly go over the bridge and graffiti of #Scargill and Tories Out is still there.

Enquiry is long over due. The house we live in is the first time non-miners have lived in it and there are still many people round here that suffered from the police stitch-up.

Whatever you think of him #Scargill had a very humourous hairstyle.

Miners’ Strike: A Frontline Story: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001wm1x via @bbciplayer

Watching the Miners Strike documentary on C4 catch-up. It's very very good.

#thatcher #scargill #MinersStrike

Militant, on a number of occasions, called for a 24-hour general strike in support of the miners. When the South Wales and national NUM funds were ...
1984-85 miners’ strike: Coordination and fighting union leaders would have been decisive - Socialist Party
1984-85 miners’ strike: Coordination and fighting union leaders would have been decisive - Socialist Party

As part of our occasional working-class history series, Scott Jones looks back at the 1984-85 miners’ strike and some of its lessons for today

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#Union criticise plans to use #troops to cover #strikes, #PM hits back calling them 'Grinches' who 'want to steal #Christmas'. Even senior #mod officers have criticised the scheme.

#ToryScum grew up on #thatcher , mimicking is about all they've got left. #MickLynch is #scargill, #nurses the miners and #socialist steal Christmas. Nigh on 60 yrs of the same old 💩 and it's got old.

#ToriesOut162 #ToriesUnfitToGovern #ToryOCG #joinaunion #generalstrike

https://news.sky.com/story/unions-criticise-plans-to-use-troops-to-cover-strikes-but-pm-hits-back-by-calling-them-grinches-who-want-to-steal-christmas-12770363

Unions criticise plans to use troops to cover strikes but PM hits back by calling them 'Grinches' who 'want to steal Christmas'

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