{"id":29840,"date":"2024-03-06T03:37:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T03:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/miners-strike-40-years-on-we-were-robbed-of-our-future\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T03:37:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T03:37:34","slug":"miners-strike-40-years-on-we-were-robbed-of-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/miners-strike-40-years-on-we-were-robbed-of-our-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Miners&#8217; strike 40 years on: &#8216;We were robbed of our future&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The year-long miners&#8217; strike of 1984-85 was the biggest industrial dispute in post-war Britain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands of miners were locked in a bitter dispute with Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s government, which supported plans to shut coal pits across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miner Bob Young played a key role in organising strike action in Fife during the dispute. Four decades on, he believes the impact of the mine closures is still being felt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Morgan Spence and Louise Cowie<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Images: Alamy &amp; PA Media<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c517leey9gxo\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Forty years on, miners&#8217; strike divisions &#8216;have never gone away&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-68442261\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year-long miners&#8217; strike of 1984-85 was the biggest industrial dispute in post-war Britain. Thousands of miners were locked in a bitter dispute with Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s government, which supported plans to shut coal pits across the country. Miner Bob Young played a key role in organising strike action in Fife during the dispute. Four decades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[87,5647,5813,849,380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29842,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29840\/revisions\/29842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}