CLASS WAR ON WORKERS – The Great Miners’ Strike 1984-85 & Its Aftermath

CLASS WAR ON WORKERS – The Great Miners’ Strike 1984-85 & It’s Aftermath

The Great Miners’ Strike of 1984/85 was the most important event in modern working-class history, with lasting effects on our lives today, 40 years on.

This 100-page book is a lively and comprehensive account of the year-long struggle against the vicious government of Maggie Thatcher.

It’s peppered with stories from miners and women of the pit villages themselves, combined with broader analysis of the context of the strike, with a potted history of previous and subsequent workers’ struggles.

It graphically exposes the methods of the state, the role of trade union and Labour leaders, and portrays the phenomenal solidarity of working-class people at home and abroad, in what was far more than an industrial dispute: class war between capital and labour.

The book spells out the aftermath of the entirely avoidable miners’ defeat, in workplaces and politics, shaping today’s conditions and the irreversible degeneration of the Labour party.

It argues for a Socialist Green New Deal to prevent workers in Grangemouth and the North Sea being abandoned like 21st century miners.

Class War on Workers is an eye-opener for people too young to have lived through the miners’ strike, a reminder to those who were involved, and an inspirational read for all today’s generations, as we challenge poverty, capitalist exploitation and climate catastrophe.

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