My Time in the Miners’ Strike

An interview with: Ian Lavery

In 1984, Labour Party Chair Ian Lavery was an ordinary miner ready to stand with his fellow workers. What he experienced during the strike changed him forever.

Miners’ pickets outside Salford Colliery in Lancashire during a national strike, 11 February 1974. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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This summer sees the thirty-fifth anniversary of the beginning of the miners’ strike, that moment in the 1980s when the state, media, and police entered into an all-out conflict with the British labour movement. Despite an agreement that mining apprentices from the north-east of England would continue working throughout the strike, one apprentice — the current […]

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This summer sees the thirty-fifth anniversary of the beginning of the miners’ strike, that moment in the 1980s when the state, media, and police entered into an all-out conflict with the British labour movement. Despite an agreement that mining apprentices from the north-east of England would continue working throughout the strike, one apprentice — the current […]

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This summer sees the thirty-fifth anniversary of the beginning of the miners’ strike, that moment in the 1980s when the state, media, and police entered into an all-out conflict with the British labour movement. Despite an agreement that mining apprentices from the north-east of England would continue working throughout the strike, one apprentice — the current […]

This summer sees the thirty-fifth anniversary of the beginning of the miners’ strike, that moment in the 1980s when the state, media, and police entered into an all-out conflict with the British labour movement. Despite an agreement that mining apprentices from the north-east of England would continue working throughout the strike, one apprentice — the current […]

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