Tuesday, 23 March 2021

An interview with a NUM activist about the 1984/5 strike and the Battle of Orgreave

 

As of March 2021, Richard Horsfield is a Unite trade union tutor who for many years was the Unite senior steward/convenor at Wavin near Holmfirth.

On leaving school in 1979, Richard worked for the National Coal Board and was active in the National Union of Mineworkers for over a decade during which he experienced the 1984/85 miners’ strike and the brutality of the police at the Orgeave coking works. This is Richard’s short story of his time as a coal miner.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0knSTX9sNaGc6tsTqQB4vx

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