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Coal: Ronnie Millar draft for conference speech (Miners Strike) [polishes MT handwritten text] [released 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: THCR 5/1/4/79 f144
Editorial comments: Date conjectured. MT was working on the speech that weekend. Ronnie Millar seems to have been given the notes and prepared a revised text. MT’s text can be read here.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 12pp
Themes: Privatized & state industries, Labour Party & socialism, Law & order, Trade unions, Strikes & other union action, 1984-85 coal strike