Forty years on, Hilary Cave offers her Recollections of the 1984-85 Miners' Strike from her vantage point as a member of the National Union of Mineworkers' headquarters staff. She combines a clear honesty with sharp insight into the politics of this turning point in class struggle, and with a strong appreciation of. It is a book that will stir the memoroes of mners and their failies and supporters and recalls a critical period when the sinews of the capitalist state were laid bare to reveal the class realities that stand behind Britain's bourgeois democracy.'
Forty years on, Hilary Cave offers her Recollections of the 1984-85 Miners' Strike from her vantage point as a member of the National Union of Mineworkers' headquarters staff. She combines a clear honesty with sharp insight into the politics of this turning point in class struggle, and with a strong appreciation of. It is a book that will stir the memoroes of mners and their failies and supporters and recalls a critical period when the sinews of the capitalist state were laid bare to reveal the class realities that stand behind Britain's bourgeois democracy.'
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