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NEXT month will mark 40 years since the beginning of the 1984-5 miners’ strike. It was not only a formative struggle for an entire generation of socialists and trade unionists, but one whose outcome continues to shape British society today.
But when we meet this weekend for our Morning Star conference — Fightback: 40 Years On From the Miners’ Strike — we will be looking forward, not back.
The miners’ strike was the largest and most consequential industrial dispute of the Thatcher years. Their defeat put rocket boosters under Thatcher’s programme of privatisation and deregulation, from which we can trace a direct line to today’s failed state of collapsing services, enfeebled workplace rights and threadbare social security.
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