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The World Socialist Web Site is reposting an essay first published in 2004, “20 years since the year-long miners’ strike”, to assist the workers in every sector now coming into struggle.
Our final nearly nine-year exile in London included involvement in the lost battles of the last great miners’ strike and the fight at Rupert Murdoch’s digitised Wapping plant. But the bitter learning experience was in initiating and coordinating what was probably the biggest trade union-bas.