At the University of East Anglia recently Rob Sewell of the Socialist
Appeal gave a talk on the Miners strike in Britain 1984-5. The strike
was a culmination of the inevitable build up of tension between the
ruling and working class. In the post-war period the decline of British
imperialism had occured. The Tories of the 1980s were a rabid reaction
to that phenomenon, determined to destroy the organised labour movement
by taking on its most militant section, the National Union of Miners. Listen here to Part 1 and Part 2 .
