User:Ynysmon1

This is totally Left Wing bias. Stop making out that this was the poor downtrodden workers facing the might of the state;I was there as a Police officer. Prior to that I worked in heavy industry (engineering, steel works and saw mills ) for nine years. I was also a Trade Union shop steward. This wasn't a noble struggle, it was a tawdry episode in British trade union relations. An illeagal strike called by a man with too much power who tried to intimidate the rest of the mine workers into not working, and essentially bring down the State as he tried to do previously. A small faction of the pickets, fired up by rhetoric, were hell bent on violent confrontation with the Police.I saw enough missile throwing, including huge stone wall coping stones and concrete lamp posts. Most of this happened half way down the hill and below the main coking plant entrance. I suspect that very little media coverage was there, if any.