Spent some time this afternoon with some old friends marking the 40th anniversary of the #MinersStrike

This is Arthur Scargill speaking at Hatfield Main Club

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#MinersStrike As an 11 year old, I remember the impact it had on my family, my community, and now my future!

Arthur Scargill speaking yesterday at Hatfield Main Club marking the 40th anniversary of the #MinersStrike

This is what Arthur said on the role of the police and BBC at Orgreave

Brian Clough and Jack Charlton were two working-class legends who stood up to the fascists in the 1970s and were in solidarity with mining communities under attack in the 1980s.

A thread 🧵

#Defiance #MinersStrike

Jeremy Paxman visits the mining community in Murton, County Durham, during #MinersStrike

The clip is part of the BBC’s Panorama programme which aired #OnThisDay 1984.

#OnThisDay 1984. The National Coal Board grant working Nottinghamshire miners a day off with pay to demonstrate against the #MinersStrike

7,000 miners demonstrate at Berry Hill in Mansfield.

If Orgreave had happened in France, the whole country would have backed the miners. The TUC and Labour movement let us down bad. But the Tories didn't stop with the miners, and the whole trade union, Labour movement and country have suffered since. #ToriesOut #MinersStrike

Watching ‘Miners’ Strike’ on BBC 2. Thatcher and the Tories were as disgusting then as they are now. #minersstrike #ToryScum #Thatcher

#OnThisDay 1984. May Day march through Glasgow in support of the #MinersStrike

Musselburgh Miners Wives Support Group during #MinersStrike

My Mam here running the soup kitchen for the families in the village. #MinersStrike

My #MinersStrike selection book of the week: United by the Struggle
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“We supported one miner and his family, as much as we could, after he told us they had eaten their pet rabbit. I am still shocked about this 40 years later.”-NCM-34

Discover more memories of the 1984-1985 Miners' Strike in our exhibition, 84-85 - The Longest Year.

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#OnThisDay 1984. The National Union of Mineworkers special conference is held at Sheffield Town Hall.

All areas of the NUM are called upon to join the #MinersStrike

During the #MinersStrike Arthur Scargill speaks to miners in Sunderland

40yrs since the #minersstrike

Wakefield Cathedral will be hosting an exhibition of historic and modern banners used by trade unions!
📅Mon 29 Apr- Sat 11 May ⏰9am-4pm 📍Wakefield Cathedral

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