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Riot police confront miners, Cortonwood Colliery. John Sturrock/reportdigital.co.uk
“There was only one thing standing in the way of privatisation, market rule and free market capitalism, and that was us. We knew and they knew it, but we were still shocked at how far they were prepared to go.” That's Paul Symonds, once a Yorkshire miner, reflecting on the strike that split Britain nearly thirty years ago.
