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Coal: Peter Shipley minute for Redwood (“Political purpose in the coal strike”) [evidence of use for “wider political ends by militants”] [released 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: THCR 1/12/24 f45
Editorial comments: A press dossier follows the minute.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 20pp
Themes: Privatized & state industries, Pay, Labour Party & socialism, Strikes & other union action, 1984-85 coal strike