Thatcherism And The Crisis of the Labour Movement

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Thatcherism And The Crisis of the Labour Movement

Margaret Thatcher on challenges from the left

‘Two tribes’?

Tory campaign poster, 1979

‘The winter of discontent’

Arthur Scargill

Scargill addressing a rally

Scargill – Private Eye cover Jan 1982

Cortonwood

Cortonwood: pickets

Solidarity demonstration

A picket line

Police ‘handling’ of the miners’ strike

Miners’ wives support group

Women Against Pit Closures

Women against pit closures - 2

LGSM

The Sun on Scargill

Comic Strip Presents: The Strike (1988)

Peter Richardson as Al Pacino playing Arthur Scargill (The Strike, 1988)

Brassed Off (dir. Mark Herman, 1996)

Our Friends in the North (BBC 1996, writer Peter Flannery)

Our Friends in the North, ep. 7 (“1984”)

Pride (dir. Matthew Warchus, 2014)

Pride

David Peace: GB84

Tony Benn in the 1980s

Liverpool Council in the 80s