Today is the 25th anniversary of the start of the miners strike,when the miners tried to stop the closure of mines,and were subjected to violence by the thatcher government,and described by that woman as the enemy within,not a new idea,as Churchill initiated similar atrocities in Tonypandy Wales,the BBC manipulated films by selective editing to show the miners as the aggressors,and in the end the lads who only wanted to work for a living were cast on the scrapheap, there is still much bitterness in mining areas and rightly so.
Jack London the author wrote a book ,The Iron Heel which described the way that so called democracies would use force to crush the working class,and was proven to be something of a prophet by the action of the thatcher government .
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Graham, I would love to buy this book for Sam if I can't get it here I will send you the money for the book to post on to us. Sam was only talking about the miners and the suffering they received just the other night, so I know he would love to read this book.
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