
ACFM Trip 31: Strikes
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The Great Miners Strike of 1984
The great minus strike of 1984 was a massive confrontation between Thatcher and the Thatcher government and the trade unions in the early 80s. The conservatives were trying to defeat air traffic control which i always think says something about the two different countries we had the horny-handed militant miners and they had the all they had to do in america was defeat the air traffic control. It's very notable it's very unamined imagery that the worker the worker is the communist bros of brooklyn around jackabin who never seemed to have anything to say about them. They're massively into romanticizing the british miners you know quite rightly but they don't I've never seen them say much about
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