Recollections of the Miners' Strike - Paperback

by Hilary Cave (Author)

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.'