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MAY DAY SEES MANCHESTER LAUNCH OF THE MEDIA AND THE MINERS’ STRIKE BOOK
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Star date: 21st April 2019 HOW THE MINERS WERE SHAFTED DURING STRIKE Shafted: The Media, the Miners' Strike and the Aftermath
Tuesday 7th May 7pm
Mechanics Institute, Manchester free As part of this year's May Day Festival in Manchester and Salford, there is the timely launch of a new edition of Shafted: The Media, the Miners' Strike and the Aftermath, edited by Granville Williams, with ace guest speakers including tv and film producer Tony Garnett (Kes and The Price of Coal). The new edition brings it all up to date. Plus ca change plus la meme chose. Full details here...
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Put in your diary, Tuesday 7th May, if you want to understand what is going on now with the media, the Tories and grinding people into the earth. Shafted: The Media, the Miners' Strike and the Aftermath first appeared ten years ago on the 25th anniversary of the Miners' Strike but is being re-launched with a new edition that further highlights the social, political and economic fall-out from the strike. "So much has happened over the last decade: cabinet paper revelations on the Government's role in the strike; the establishment of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign; the closure of the last pit, Kellingley, in December 2015; and a renewed interest in the Women Against Pit Closures pit camps set up in the wake of the October 1992 announcement of 31 pits closing with the loss of 31,000 jobs" state the organisers of the Manchester event. "It is clear now that there is a direct link between the Tory attacks on the miners and other trade unions and the precarious world of low-paid, zero-hours work which hundreds of thousands of workers are subject to today" they add. Speaking on the night, which is part of this year's Manchester and Salford May Day Festival, will be Shafted editor, Granville Williams; Dave Toomer, journalist, trade unionist and lecturer and Vice Chair of the Manchester and Salford NUJ Branch; Pete Lazenby, Northern Reporter for the Morning Star and a reporter for the Yorkshire Post during the Miners' Strike; and the fab tv and film producer, Tony Garnett, who did Kes, Cops and The Price of Coal. The launch is being hosted by Manchester and Salford NUJ, Manchester Trades Union Council and the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (North). Shafted: The Media, the Miners' Strike and the Aftermath
Tuesday 7th May 7pm
Mechanics Institute
103 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6DD The event is free entrance but tickets can be booked in advance to guarantee entry – click here for details
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Rossi wrote
at 06:43:49 on 28 April 2019 |
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| Rayofsunshine, stop talking cobblers, you plastic Marxist. You go on and on about the working class, and yet you are a proud and unabashed supporter of Salford's Labour Council, who sold out years ago to the big business property developers. Just be quiet Ray. Oh, and one last thing. Your political heroes/masters are nothing but turkeys voting for Christmas. You see, the newbies who move into these thousands of new flats in these big private developments that have been springing up all over the side of Salford that's edging towards Manchester, well, they DON'T VOTE LABOUR. This being so, within twenty years Salford Council will be Lib-Dem at best, Conservative at worst. |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 18:51:46 on 27 April 2019 |
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| Bob the regular,even at the time of the Měners Strike,1984/85,there existed technology/techniques that could have rapidly improved working conditions for miners!
The Tories were having none of it;instead the miners were smashed and the Mining Industry was destroyed. How was the gap left by the ending of domestic mining filled? Foreign imports of natural gas and electricity from France.
The way the Tories handled the Miners gives a clear warning over how they will handle Brexit;slash and burn,with the Working Class carrying the can! |
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Bob the regular wrote
at 19:08:34 on 26 April 2019 |
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| Thatcher indeed was a wicked old cow who hated all northern working class lads, the whole lot of us. She saw no difference between the hard working lads from the North East, and the lazy militant skyvers of Liverpool. She thought we were all the same.Rossi makes a good point about the mines, they were shitholes and bad for the workers no matter how much they were paid. I used to know a good few former miners, I used to drink in the miners club. they are all dead now, fifties early sixties and early seventies. Strong fit lads who used to be good rugby players.Thatcher also shut down most of the grammar schools in this country, a policy the left like the idea of but I have never heard one of them praise her for it.To all our lefty nutters I say this. If I granted them the wish of bringing back one of the two institutions (mines and grammar schools) that thatcher closed down back, what would they choose, of course on the understanding that their children /grandchildren would be sent there for 7 years of their lives? |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 16:16:22 on 26 April 2019 |
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| Rossi,the miners weren't "doomed",they were "targetted"! It's proven historical fact that as far back as 1976,Mrs Thatcher had detailed plans to confront and smash the miners!
These plans called for changing of trade union law,mass stockpiling of coal and using the police as
"Tory Boot Boys". The miners were targetted in order
that the whole of the working class was made to pay for the crisis of British Capitalism!
Workers were to be seen,not heard;little more than glorified slaves! |
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Bob the regular wrote
at 22:00:42 on 25 April 2019 |
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| While were on about Chorlton, this great socialist paradise has great wealth differences. Look at all the beggars on the street. Millions of them. They do not have that in Trafford.Drugs and high crime rates there are terrible as well. While were on about filthy streets, Karl marx's mate Engels said,150 years ago, that the streets at the back of Chapel Street look like they have not been swept since the day they were built, this is still true today. |
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Rossi wrote
at 07:48:36 on 25 April 2019 |
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| Well if Chorlton's Labour, then what do you expect Bob? It's your Labour, innit.
Labour areas are always dirty. If you don't believe me, then go to Monsall or Cheetham Hill. I suppose that i should have said Conservative Trafford Council areas like Stretford, Urmston, Davyhulme and Flixton. Places where the streets are ALWAYS clean. |
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Bob the regular wrote
at 15:49:08 on 24 April 2019 |
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| It seems Rossi is not that good on geopolitics, if that's the right word. Chorlton is not in Trafford, it's in Manchester. It is also not full of the right wing golf club types that Trafford seems to be, although it does have a very effluent population,a bit like the affluent people who reside in Trafford, they seem to have plenty of cash, they need it to live there, house prices are through the roof.This is where all our educated lefty types live. The "health service proffessionals" class, teachers, ect.They all live there so they can get their kids in the right sort of comprehensive school, not the sort of comprehensive our kids go to. Rossi is wrong about the streets being clean. They are filthy, go and see for yourself. |
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Rossi wrote
at 12:33:18 on 24 April 2019 |
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| Listen Ray, Thatcher was deplorable, but the truth be told, the miners couldnt be subsidised forever. Coal was a thing of the past. It was out of its time, had become a dinosaur, an antique. Ultimately coal had become an anachronism. Like Pike and Dutch, and the Gorch brothers in Sam Peckinpah's seminal End of the Wild West Western, The Wild Bunch. Don't you get it Ray, Coal had had its day. And so had the miners. Now okay, they tried, led valiantly by King Arthur, but they were doomed to fail. And the Battle of Orgreave? Yes, it was tragic. But the miners had been finished by then for years. Look, if the miners had have been around today, the Government could have put them on courses with companies like The Growth Company, and they could have gone on I.T courses and got qualifications in I.T ... and a future job in Customer Services, but alas, those days were different, and the Growth Company didn't exist then. After all, we have Blair and the Labour Party to thank for these businesses that make a lot of money and help the unemployed get some "relevant" skills.
In The Final Analysis, Ray, The Miners were doomed. Mining's not good for you, most of them get "Miner's Lung", so it could be argued that Thatcher's brutal snuffing out of them was indeed a "Mercy Killing". The industry itself was dirty, dangerous and was producing a product that was too expensive for the country to buy.
With regard me, I dont know why you're so hostile. You need to forgive if you feel offended. Equally, you need to stop being a Labour Quisling. Try being like Joe and Mary, genuine campaigners for their community and city, and if elected, "true" peoples' representatives. Politicians who care, content to simply represent their community.
Trust me Ray, that's a far cry from being an elected official of "The Machine". Always toeing the party line, regardless of the citizens or the city's best interests, always being patrician and secretive; and I'm serious when I say that, because under Salford Labour, this city is a true "Nanny State". It's deplorable, Ray ... and so is Salford Labour. |
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Rossi wrote
at 09:55:05 on 24 April 2019 |
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| I have just come back off a ride around Salford on my bicycle. The journey took in Central Salford, Swinton, Eccles and back home to Magnolia Court. The streets, both main streets and back streets were full of filth. Bags of rubbish, empty cartons, crisp packets being blown by the wind. Detritus of every type imaginable. EVERYWHERE! And it suddenly struck me. What are we paying these clowns for? Council Tax goes up every year, yet the streets get filthier. What gives???
I cant help but notice, that whenever i cycle aound Trafford Council areas, be it Stretford, Chorlton or wherever - the streets are clean. There isnt litter and filth EVERYWHERE! Tell me, why can't Salford Labour get the filth festooned streets of its own city cleaned? The Conservatives do in Trafford. Salford Labour. Inept. Feckless. Disgraceful. I suppose that they're too busy cuddling up to filthy rich property developers and giving them "sweetheart" deals, than looking after the interests of its council tax paying citizens, AKA The Little People, and keeping the streets clean. |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 09:54:50 on 24 April 2019 |
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| Rossi,you right wing sh#t,why don't you just crawl under a stone? |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 09:54:26 on 24 April 2019 |
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| Rossi,at least the miners led productive lives - whereas you are a whining layabout who is deluded in his opinion that his views amount to something! How sad! |
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Rossi wrote
at 08:31:12 on 23 April 2019 |
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| Be quiet Ray, when you're elected Councillor for Irwell Riverside, you can do all your carping then. |
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Miner Whiner wrote
at 19:24:24 on 22 April 2019 |
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| I don't see the problem
Thatcher smashing the mining mafia has done wonders for the UKs cO2 emissions and made the air cleaner for us all.
Bravo Maggie, |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 19:24:11 on 22 April 2019 |
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| Slurp,Thatcher took on the miners NOT to save the environment but to crush the working class! |
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Slurp wrote
at 18:26:58 on 21 April 2019 |
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| So what if Thatcher had a secret agenda to break the miners. They were finished anyway. Instead of a long drawn out end for the miners it was brutal but relatively quick. Economics and environmental concerns meant they were finished and heading for the slag heap of history. Could you imagine trying to justify subsidizing the more expensive, least efficient and more polluting natural resource when you had north sea gas as an alternative. We'd have people tying themselves to colliery wheels if they were still in operation. |
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