"you've missed my name' — they said 'you're not on it'.
But l'Il tell you who was on it. Roy Ottev. Comn Clarke the chairman of the CEGB, and a lot more people who did a number of things against our ana my class. course of the miners' strike.
This 1985 Yorkshire miners' gala takes place in the wake of the longest, bitterest and most historic battle we have ever seen. The decision to take strike action was not taken, as Jack Taylor said, because we want to be involved in strikes. We didn't pick the time. We responded to an attack and its my understanding as a leader that when members of the union are atpond, and take action to defend those who are under attack. That's the basic principle of the movement.
I believe that today draw some lessons from that strike. Let's remind ourselves first what the strike was about.
To hear some academics, intellectuals, and historians talk on televiwhat they newspapers and magazines, to listen during the we should of all action DIRTY UF THE DIRTY 30 of the PAIGN La phenomena became death They who talk about defeat don't understand the nature of the system under which we live and certainly misunderstand the nature of class war.
I believe the miners' strike was one struggles in history. Out of the miners' strike has come a whole new generation of class conscious fighters, young men of whom their parents would have been proud, and whose forefathers would have held them in the highest esteem. Victory An even greater achievement was the establishment of the magnificen Women's Support Groups. Thatcher's policy in establishing the women's sup port groups by default, has unleashed that will change the nature of British politics in the future.
But the greatest victory was the strike itself. People becan understand how you tackle cuts in the NHS. They began to understand for the first time in their lives that there is