Jul 12, 2023
Miners Strike 1984/85 - how it ended
The 1984/85 miners strike ended with defeat for organised labour and a victory for neo-liberalism as TV historian Tony McMahon explains
In my last year at university, two things happened to me. I got elected Deputy President of the university student union and within weeks, the UK’s miners went on strike. The 1984/85 Miners Strike lasted an entire year and in its aftermath, British politics and culture were changed fundamentally. The defeat of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) heralded Thatcherism at its most triumphant and…
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