Campaigners rally on Battle of Orgreave anniversary as Labour promises inquiry

Campaigners rally on Battle of Orgreave anniversary as Labour promises inquiry

Sheffield demonstration comes 40 years after notorious police action against striking miners

Campaigners are to gather at Sheffield City Hall for a rally to mark 40 years since the notorious “battle” of Orgreave during the 1984-85 miners’ strike, and call for the full truth about the scandal to be addressed.

On 18 June 1984, an estimated 8,000 miners who had travelled to picket the plant at Orgreave, South Yorkshire that made coke for the steel industry, were met by massed ranks of 6,000 police officers. With force unprecedented in mainland Britain, mounted police charged their horses at speed into the crowd, and officers using batons and short shields beat many miners over the head.

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