The Movement and Main Goal
What month and year did the miners' strike start?
What is March 1984.
This LGBTQ activist group raised funds, joined picket lines, and organized the famous “Pits & Perverts” benefit concert in 1984.
Who are Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM)?
What was the name of the report that exposed the plans of the Thatcher government?
What is the Ridley Report.
This colour, often seen on banners and flags, symbolizes the workers’ unity, socialist roots, and the struggle of the labour movement.
What is red?
What is the NUM?
What is The National Union for Miners.
This grassroots women’s organization organized food kitchens, fundraising, and rallies to support mining families during the strike.
What is Women Against Pit Closures (WAPC)
Who exposed the Ridley Report?
Who is John Saville.
People in precarious jobs often have to work more than one job, or rely on this kind of help to get by?
What is social assistance or community support?
How many union members went on strike in April of 1984?
What is approximately 160,000.
During the strike, the government used these 1980 and 1982 laws to restrict secondary picketing and seize NUM assets.
What are the Employment Acts
What powers were revoked from Trade Unions by the Conservative government?
What is powers of veto.
The UK government used this institution to physically confront picket lines and manage strike protests?
What are the police?
What did the women and LGBTQ groups who went on strike with the miners call themselves?
What is "Women against pit closures" and "Lesbians and gays support the miners".
At this coking plant in South Yorkshire, thousands of miners clashed with police in June 1984 in what became the most violent confrontation of the strike.
What is Orgreave.
How many miners were found redundant post-strike?
What is 60,000.
This media and political label was used by Thatcher to describe striking miners.
What is “the enemy within”?
What does "coal not dole" mean?
What is a slogan used by miners' which argued that it was more economically sound to subsidize less profitable mines than it was to pay workers unemployment benefits or "dole".
This 1977 Conservative Party strategy document outlined how to weaken trade unions by stockpiling coal and mobilizing police in advance of strikes.
What is the Ridley Plan.
What kind of people did Thatcher hire to run the Downing Street Policy Unit?
Who is right-wing businessmen from private sectors who rivalled the coal industry.
One legal reason the strike was declared unlawful was the lack of this kind of nationwide democratic decision-making tool.
What is a national strike ballot?