Still Shafted

By: Rhian E. Jones

Two new books on the Miners’ Strike reveal the solidarities that existed across the divides of today’s ‘culture war’ – and the ongoing effects of the defeat on the communities at the heart of it.

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The Miners’ Strike of 1984–5 was fundamental to the transformation of late twentieth-century Britain—the undermining of trade unionism, the erosion of class politics, the economic shift from industrial to finance capital—and its effects are ongoing. It can be unsettling in some ways to read historical analyses of an era which is still so vivid in […]

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The Miners’ Strike of 1984–5 was fundamental to the transformation of late twentieth-century Britain—the undermining of trade unionism, the erosion of class politics, the economic shift from industrial to finance capital—and its effects are ongoing. It can be unsettling in some ways to read historical analyses of an era which is still so vivid in […]

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The Miners’ Strike of 1984–5 was fundamental to the transformation of late twentieth-century Britain—the undermining of trade unionism, the erosion of class politics, the economic shift from industrial to finance capital—and its effects are ongoing. It can be unsettling in some ways to read historical analyses of an era which is still so vivid in […]

The Miners’ Strike of 1984–5 was fundamental to the transformation of late twentieth-century Britain—the undermining of trade unionism, the erosion of class politics, the economic shift from industrial to finance capital—and its effects are ongoing. It can be unsettling in some ways to read historical analyses of an era which is still so vivid in […]

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