Dig Deep for the Miners
| Date: | 1984 |
|---|---|
| Organisation: | National Union of Mineworkers |
| Collection: | British Miners' Strike 1984/85 |
| Type: | Ephemera |
| View: | View Document |
| Discuss: | Comments on this document |
| Subjects: |
Please note: The Irish Left Archive is provided as a non-commercial historical resource, open to all, and has reproduced this document as an accessible digital reference. Copyright remains with its original authors. If used on other sites, we would appreciate a link back and reference to The Irish Left Archive, in addition to the original creators. For re-publication, commercial, or other uses, please contact the original owners. If documents provided to The Irish Left Archive have been created for or added to other online archives, please inform us so sources can be credited.
Commentary From The Cedar Lounge Revolution
25th March 2013
Please Note: This document was added to the archive in conjunction with a number of documents from the 1984/1985 British Miners Strike and support work in Tallaght, Dublin.
For an overview of these documents see the British Miners’ Strike 1984/85 Collection
More from National Union of Mineworkers
National Union of Mineworkers in the archive
Comments
No Comments yet.
Add a Comment
Comments can be formatted in Markdown format . Use the toolbar to apply the correct syntax to your comment. The basic formats are:
**Bold text**
Bold text
_Italic text_
Italic text
[A link](http://www.example.com)
A link
You can join this discussion on The Cedar Lounge Revolution
By: irishelectionliterature Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:24:18
Ken Loach / Which Side Are You On (1984)
Reply on the CLR
By: Red Hand Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:29:53
Great resources
Reply on the CLR
By: Uncorruptable Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:24:32
Lyrics from John lennons ‘Working class hero’ is all i want to post here, fits with the fight of the time & ever more today for us all,
“As soon as you’re born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you’re clever and they despise a fool
Till you’re so ****ing crazy you can’t follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can’t really function you’re so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you’re so clever and classless and free
But you’re still ****ing peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
There’s room at the top they’re telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me”
Reply on the CLR
By: Brendan O'Neill Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:15:42
In April 1985, as a guests of the president of the Neath branch of the N.U.M., Phil Bowen my wife and I visited a number of branches and at Penrhiwceiber, (pronounced Pen-rue-kyber), we witnessed a very young man labouriously pull and sway his way up a steep hill with only a hand rail for support. On enquiring of his state, from a local rep, who told us he had been a miner who now suffered from the dreaded pneumoconiosis,I penned the following;
Penrhiwceiber.
And I have seen a young man
Aged now
Begin his climb and fail
Where, once as a boy
In freedom ran
And never thought there was a hill
Nor living death
Beneath the soil.
(South Wales April 1985)
Beneath the soil
Reply on the CLR
By: EAMONN WALSH Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:46:46
I WAS VERY PLEASED WITH THE SHOWING OF MY MATERIAL ON THE MINERS WIVES AND CHILDREN VISIT TO DUBLIN .
THE MOST STRIKING ISSUE THAT COMES ACROSS IS THE WILLINGNESS OF LEFT MINDED WORKING PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES TO BELIEVE IN AND ACTIVELY SUPPORT STRUGGLES TO DEFEND THEIR BASIC HUMAN RIGHT TO EARN A DECENT LIVING. DURING THE FIRST WEEK COLLECTING MONEY FOR TO SUPPORT THE STRIKERS IN BARNSLEY I WAS CONFRONTED WITH YOU FEN BRIT SUPPORTER AND AS THE STRUGGLE WAS COVERED ON TV THE MOOD CHANGED DRAMATICALLY AND THE LAST NIGHT OF THE WOMEN’S VISIT THE FUNCTION IN THE LOCAL PUB THE TRADERS WAS JAMED TO FULL CAPACITY AND DID NOT CLOSE UNTIL 1.30 am AND THEN WENT BACK TO MY HOME IN LIMEKILN FARM BESIDE THE PUB AND WE HAD TO TAKE OFF THE INTERNAL DOORS TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE CROWD.IT WAS A GREAT LESSON IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE WORKING PEOPLE’S CAUSES INTERNATIONALLY
Reply on the CLR
By: Branno's ultra-left t-shirt Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:57:28
The defining moment of the last 30 years: the miners defeat changed everything. Fair play to anyone who collected for them or supported them in any way.
Reply on the CLR
By: Thatcherism. Lest we forget… | The Cedar Lounge Revolution Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:39:43
[…] …here from a few weeks ago an unknowingly timely Left Archive that demonstrates some of the ef… […]
Reply on the CLR