No. 63 ACTIoN SOCiALiSt 30р WE GOT there about 7am. Before 8am, without any provocation, we were subjected to a charge by the police. The coke lorries hadn't even arrived.
rive after being delayed by pickets at the bottom end for over an hour.
been out from the start. The police response was to truncheon down the people at the front, hitting us on the heads and in the they side. The first big shove came when the lorries did eventually ar1 was at the front right under the riot shields which had kidneys.
We pulled back and that's when sent in the cavalry up the fiele were half a dozen of more Mounties on our flank ready to charge from the Then we saw a variety of riot police that we ve never seen before with small shields carrying truncheons. They came streaming from police lines clubbing everyone they caught up with Even the TV showed that mos people stood around. Bar int had led te were деного дато онденадаля people tried to get their mates fre from the cops.
The first convoy got through and in the two hours before the next lot, many of the lads went for something to eat. With less pickets there the police charged to move us as far up the road as possible. They forced us across the railway bridge and lines. Past the bridge they kept on charging and charging again, to break up the thousands of pickets that were still in tent on getting down to the plant.
When it was clear that the stree lighting was going to end up on a loca housing estate, the police pulled back to earne we blowers them..ane it was at this point that wrecked cars alight, purely as a defence against further cavalry charges We eventually moved off at about 1pm when a convoy of about 40 police minibuses came from our rear. The lorries had already been and gone and we had heard that the iS were to suspend operations for this week anyway.
1 think that the police, the government and the BSC management have decided Orgreave coke is not worth We've got to see this as some kind of victor: for the NUM