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Looking back to the 1984-5 strike, Durham miners' leader Davey Hopper believes that the dispute was not primarily about the coal industry.
He explains his comment, which is at face value surprising, by asserting that the main concern of Margaret Thatcher's Tory government was to neuter the trade union movement.
"I believe the strike wasn't about the coal industry. It was about trade unionism and the miners were seen as in the vanguard of that movement," Hopper says.
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