Miners’ strike - NUM Libya connection

Title

Miners’ strike - NUM Libya connection

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:03:50

Description

Interview with Labour MEP Les Huckfield on the Libyan trade unions offering financial help to the NUM in the miners’ strike and the issues that surround it including recent shooting dead of WPC Yvonne Fletcher at the Libyan embassy in London and Colonel Gaddafi’s regime and support for terrorists. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Les Huckfield

Keywords

Trade unions; Money; Strikes; Labour disputes; Terrorism; Terrorists; Political systems; Homicide; NUM; Finance; Coal miners; Police personnel; Muammar al-Gaddafi; Yvonne Fletcher; Libya; Coal Strike (1984-1985); Dictatorship

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