Richard Hyman takes part in the post-mortem on the miners’ strike
Richard Hyman, 6 June 1985
Digging Deeper: Issues in the Miners’ Strike
edited by Huw Beynon.
Verso, 252 pp., £3.95, March 1985,0 86091 820 3 Show More
edited by Huw Beynon.
Verso, 252 pp., £3.95, March 1985,
Policing the Miners’ Strike
edited by Bob Fine and Robert Millar.
Lawrence and Wishart, 243 pp., £4.95, March 1985,0 85315 633 6 Show More
edited by Bob Fine and Robert Millar.
Lawrence and Wishart, 243 pp., £4.95, March 1985,
The Strike: An Insider’s Story
by Roy Ottey.
Sidgwick, 157 pp., £7.95, March 1985,9780283992285 Show More
by Roy Ottey.
Sidgwick, 157 pp., £7.95, March 1985,
Scargill and the Miners
by Michael Crick.
Penguin, 172 pp., £2.95, March 1985,0 14 052355 3 Show More
by Michael Crick.
Penguin, 172 pp., £2.95, March 1985,
The Great Strike: The Miners’ Strike of 1984-5 and its Lessons
by Alex Callinicos and Mike Simons.
Socialist Worker, 256 pp., £3.95, April 1985,0 905998 50 2 Show More
by Alex Callinicos and Mike Simons.
Socialist Worker, 256 pp., £3.95, April 1985,
“... success in diverting the NCB from its objectives – have been pursued at an earlier stage? Callinicos and Simons, in the first full-length post-mortem on the strike, cast aside all such suggestions. Mass picketing failed, not – as many NUM activists have suggested – because it is inherently counter-productive, but because it was not pursued with ... ”
