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Justice for the miners
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE recommends a compassionate and angry portrait of Orgreave that demonstrates, with evidence, the illegal agenda of the Thatcher government
ALEX HALL is intrigued by a detailed history of Gaza that demonstrates its historic resilience and changing economy
RON JACOBS welcomes the long overdue translation of an epic work that chronicles resistance to fascism during WWII
MAYER WAKEFIELD is chilled by the co-dependency of two lost souls as portrayed by German communist playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz
The Star's critics BRETT GREGORY, JOHN GREEN, MICHAEL BONCZA and ANGUS REID review The Stimming Pool, Misericordia, La Cocina, Irena’s Vow, and The End
CHRIS MOSS welcomes a radical history that brings marginalised stories and overlooked people and agencies to the centre
ANDREW HEDGECOCK relishes visual storytelling with no respect for genres, movements or styles
Strike: An Uncivil War (15)
Directed by Daniel Gordon
JUST days after the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Orgreave, the most violent confrontation between miners and police during the 1984-85 miners’ strike, comes a hard-hitting documentary which sheds new light on the Thatcher government’s involvement in both.
On June 18 1984 thousands of miners picketing the Orgreave coking plant near Sheffield were confronted by around 6,000 police, many armed with short shields and batons and others on horseback, who charged the miners, brutally beating them up.
The official narrative was that the police had been pelted with a non-stop barrage of missiles by the pickets before taking action. The chilling film footage shot by the media and the police themselves demonstrate that this was a flagrant lie.
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