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00:00 I would love to see every single member of my union who's here and every single member
00:07 who's on strike down at the Arbry.
00:14 June the 18th 1984.
00:17 I remember that day. It was a summer's morning. Lovely day.
00:23 I can remember birds singing.
00:25 I thought this is different.
00:27 The troubles all with all the police guiding you in.
00:31 Why are they letting us in?
00:33 I don't think any of us realised what we were heading into.
00:36 This way sir, to your slot.
00:39 And then we out.
00:55 Oh, it's like number.
00:57 For the first time in this country, a paramilitary police force.
01:01 Some of the things I saw still get to me to this day.
01:09 Forty years on.
01:10 We just needed some people.
01:12 This was the arena of violence.
01:15 You cannot manifest that number of policemen overnight. It's impossible.
01:22 The confrontation with the miners was all pre-planned.
01:25 Thatcher was determined to wipe us out.
01:28 Our communities wouldn't survive.
01:30 How do you feel like this after 40 years?
01:36 I was going to stick with people who were involved in that until we took it to the ground I think.
01:41 They've absolutely decimated all our mining villages.
01:46 All the people died. The old men died.
01:49 The government intervened in every area and they've been covering it up for 40 years.
01:55 We have to protect each other.
01:59 Can you imagine how we feel? What's going to happen to our lives?
02:04 If you get rid of the strongest union, the miners, the rest will crumble.
02:10 Divide and conquer, innit?
02:12 Margaret Thatcher never wanted to see a group of workers bring the Tory government down again.
02:19 She wanted revenge.
02:20 The violence and intimidation we have seen should never have happened.
02:25 It is the work of extremists. It is the enemy within.
02:29 [Music]