‘The Miners’ Strike Could Have Won’: Former Miner Ian Mitchell

Forty years ago 160,000 miners went into battle against Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government. Ian Mitchell was a young miner during the Great Strike of 1984-85. He spoke to Socialist Worker about the struggle then and now.
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Is this ian mitchell I knew from no 42 valley road rotherham

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Hi , it’s me Geoff …how yer dancing 🤗