When the Tory Thatcherite government decided to destroy Britain's Trades Union Movement - which it did so successfully - it knew it had to take on the NUM head on.
Why the National Union of Mineworkers? Because it was the strongest and best organised. Because it had one of the longest and toughest histories in the Trades Union movement. Thatcher knew that if she smashed the NUM then the rest of the Unions would follow and they did.
The miners fought back, as they had done before. Unfortunately they were saddled with a leader, Arthur Scargill - a crypto-communist and with rumours of a background in alleged corruption. The great coalfields of Britain - the Welsh coalfields of the Rhondda; the great South Yorkshire coal mines; the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire ones; the historic ones of the North-East and beyond were all suddenly declared to be "uneconomic". The Tories, at the bidding of their Internationalist masters, were ordered to destroy the TUC and the NUM - and to do that they were quite happy to completely wreck one our oldest and most profitable industries.
The coalfields for the greater part still have rich seams of coal, but the pitheads lie idle. Once booming mining towns such as Featherstone in Yorkshire, are now graveyards peopled by young junkies who would once have had a career in the local mining industry.
The Miner's Welfare and the Miner's Social Clubs and annual mining town outings are all a thing of the past now. Where once there was plenty and a full and rich communal life, all we see now are the dinosaur like relics of forgotten pits and the empty streets of small mining towns throughout the land.
Meanwhile coal from Poland, Belgium and a host of other overseas countries pours into Britain - at a time when our own rich seems are deemed "too uneconomic" to run. The men and their families who relied on this work are now for the most part on the scrap heap of the dole.
The White Nationalist Party says:
STOP FOREIGN COAL IMPORTS
REBUILD BRITAIN'S MINING INDUSTRY
REBUILD THE MINING COMMUNITIES
