‘The Battle of Orgreave’ Inquiry Announced

Caoimhin O’Muraile  ☭ On 18th June 1984 police and coal miners clashed in a state engineered confrontation at British Steels Orgreave Coking Plant in South Yorkshire.This was one of many confrontations, though by far the largest, between striking coal miners and their trade union supporters and the forces of law and order drafted in by far-right Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. This ‘