30 January 1972: Bloody Sunday, and how it changed Ireland

This article was first published in 2010
On 10 February 1972 thousands of workers, acting in solidarity with the miners who were then on strike, surrounded the coke depot at Saltley in Birmingham.
The enormous mass picket stopped all traffic in and out until the bosses gave up and closed the gates of the depot.
As well as being the turning point of the strike, which the miners won, Saltley was a great symbol of what working-class solidarity could do.

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