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A brilliant and moving tale of struggle
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For 30 years I, like most of my fellow miners, have lived with the hurt, anger and sheer joy of memories of the momentous year-long great miners’ strike of 1984-5.
Now the makers of Still The Enemy Within encapsulate brilliantly everything that the strike meant to me and all involved at that time and over the 30 years since.
The film, which has been funded by nine national unions, over 100 union branches and hundreds of individuals, had its premiere at the Sheffield Documentary Festival last week.
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