Sunday, February 16, 2014

The Great Strike: The Miners' Strike of 1984-5 and Its Lessons

Sunday, February 16, 2014


The Great Strike: The Miners' Strike of 1984-5 and Its Lessons


This is a timely addition to the Marxists' Internet Archive - an excellent book written by Alex Callinicos and Mike Simons just after the great miners' strike in Britain which began thirty years ago next month.  Mike Simons was a journalist on Socialist Worker who covered this mass strike at the time, and is also involved with the making of a new film about the strike, (Still) The Enemy Within - a film which will form the backdrop of a conference in London on 8 March - and will be shown in full for the first time at this years' Marxism festival in July.

Edited to add: A recent review of the book by Resolute Reader here



2 Comments:

At 6:05 pm, Blogger Resolute Reader said...
By coincidence I've just, this very same day, put up a review of this book on my blog. The book should be required reading for 2014/5.

http://resolutereader.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/alex-callinicos-mike-simons-great.html
 
At 6:18 pm, Blogger Snowball said...
Excellent timing indeed! Cheers
 
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