The Battle for Orgreave - 52 minute documentary - trailer

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In this film we witness the violent struggle of miners trying to save their jobs in what became one of the biggest public disturbances this country has ever seen.

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6 June 1984

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[dogs1905]

Sadly. Thatchers lasting legacy remains.  With the aid of the right wing media, the Unions remain public enemy number 1. One day soon, the unions will rise from these dark days and the working man will see through the thin facade of right wing dogma

[itsmeJTke]

@09phillt power stations use oil because thatcher changed her energy policy to what was cheap AT THE TIME and is now the MOST EXPENSIVE. she wilfully chose to destroy both local demand and supply. that is the only reason there are less coal power stations now. it cost more to pay severence, dole money and regeneration funds for areas than it did to subsidise secure energy production for this country, a minority of incidents can't be used to justify economic vandalism. clueless sun-reading idiot.

[tony13a]

@barnbersonol But it's only because he has nothing and has to think that way.

[vivascargill1]

arthur is still around and he NEVER GIVES UP

[jackHNv]

The political rights and wrongs of the strike are irrelevant! The fact is that the police (in what we like to call our democracy), were used as a political paramilitary force, were immune to prosecution no matter how badly they behaved, and have still never been brought to book for their crimes in this (and other) disputes in the 80s.

[jackHNv]

I stood on the picket lines at Wapping and in South Wales in the 80s, I have never had any been in any trouble with the law in my life, and what I saw in those dark days made me totally lose any respect I ever had for the police in this country.

[MrRoastedSnow]

'Those who participated in the fighting described to me how the sailors fought until they run out of cartridges, and then stormed; how the untrained workmen rushed the cossacks and tore them from their horses; how the anaonyous hordes of people, gathering in the darkness around the battle, rose like a tide and poured over the enemy...Before midnight of Monday the cossacks broke and were fleeing' Ten Days That Shook The world; John Reed.

Workers Unite!

Smash the Tory State!

[barnbersonol]

@MrJanesaddictionThat's a very good point and you're right. You're thinking globally and with luxury of hindsight. But the bloke in't street doesn't think globally, long term or altruistically. he only cares about his own little world. if he's offered something better/cheaper, that's all he cares about. Essentially people are selfish.

[barnbersonol]

@MrJanesaddiction The people against the strike were excluded from the decision making process as their opinion was not heard. the scabs who actually went back were prob the tip of the iceberg...we'll never know how many wanted to join them but didn't fancy getting their cars torched. As for public support not lost among those that mattered (ie the public), Maggie's attempt to stay in power in 1987 vs Arfur's attempt to become an MP. Spot the difference.

[barnbersonol]

@MrJanesaddiction A miner gets his wages ... buys a car chooses a VW instead of an Allegro or Maestro built in the midlands..British car job gone..holidays in Benidorm not Blackpool, British chef's job gone..trainers from Taiwan are cheaper than from Peterborough... job gone

Miner's traditional clients, domestic householder, power stations, convert to gas .. STRIKE!!

[barnbersonol]

@MrJanesaddiction So it IS okay for a miner to buy cheap foreign goods over British goods just as everyone else does and justify his actions by having an anti Tory rant. Glad we got that sorted out. Glad also that at least YOU'D buy a bucket of coal for twice as much as its competitor cos its got a union jack on it.

[barnbersonol]

@MrJanesaddiction I think it 's wrong to exclude people from the decision making process and then beat them up when they don't do what they're told. You think it's a price worth paying to win a strike. But hat's the whole point. It helped LOSE the strike, cost the miners public support, led to anti union legislation (still in force) and because Scargill wouldn't condemn violence and so achieved the seemingly impossible, he made Maggie look reasonable. Well, almost