18 June is the fortieth anniversary of what became known as the Battle of Orgreave during the miners’ strike of 1984/85.
I am a proud Trade Unionist and support the rights of working people to be represented by a trade union. It’s only through the Labour movement acting together that we achieve economic and social progress for workers. That’s why I support Labour’s plan to legislate within the first 100 days of a new Labour Government, a new deal for working people.
I am also in full support of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign for an inquiry into the events that took place at the Orgreave Coking Plant, Rotherham on and before 18 June 1984. These were dark days and a light needs to be shone on some of the suspected activities of undercover agents at that time and to expose what motivated those actions that were seized upon by sections of the media to undermine the strike and turn public opinion at that time.
Recent years have revealed and are currently revealing cover ups of failures, mistakes and crimes against innocent British people – Hillsborough disaster, Infected Blood Scandal, Horizon Post Office disgrace and the COVID inquiry.
The time has come for an Inquiry into the events around Orgreave and any role that the State played in stoking divisions on that day.
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