How South Asians Sustained the Miners’ Strike

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Tue, 30/04/2024 - 06:32
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Tue, 30/04/2024 - 06:32

One summer morning in Sheffield, a young Pakistani man stood beneath his friend’s bedroom window clutching a handful of pebbles. When Mukhtar Dar sent the pebbles sailing through the air, the thud against the windowpane woke up his friend Sadiq. It was 18 June 1984, and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) had called for […]