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Beat the Devil
Cockburn, Alexander | December 19, 1994 issue

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Never underestimate the British establishment's ruthless determination to destroy its enemies," remarked Roy Hattersley a year ago, and now an astonishing new book buttresses the truth of this observation. In the great strike of 1984-85, the most ferocious confrontation between organized workers and the state in Great Britain since the General Strike of 1926, the government sequestered the union's assets, forcing Arthur Scargill, leader of the British mineworkers and his colleagues to run the strike on a cash basis. Scargill was speedily able to demonstrate that the Libyan story was preposterous, since the mortgage had long since been paid off.

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STRIKES & lockouts -- Great Britain; LABOR disputes; HATTERSLEY, Roy; GENERAL strikes; DIRECT action; GREAT Britain
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