With the coal strike now in its 32nd week, Ian MacGregor and Arthur Scargill are still a long way apart. World in Action: The Coal War, ITV 1984
Ten years ago Ian MacGregor took on the mighty American Miners’ Union and broke them in the coal-rich western states … Mr MacGregor and Mr Scargill then have both tasted victory and now they seem just as determined to win again. ibid.
Kentucky 1974: A company foreman opened fire on pickets after a year-long strike. ibid.
[news]: 1964, Johannesburg: Nelson Mandela, leader member of the African National Congress was accused of sabotage to overthrow the South African government by force. Free Nelson Mandela I: White Supremacy ***** Channel 4
It was in the air that we were going to be execued. ibid. Nelson
It is an ideal for which I hope to live for and to see realised. But, my Lord, if needs be, It is an idea for which I am prepared to die. ibid.
The Africans, they want political political independence. ibid.
The world and music can have that political power. ibid. comment
And they were very crude about it. ibid. Nelson
In 1948, when I was growing up the nationalist government came in that introduced apartheid. We saw people being forcibly moved. We saw people getting arrested. We knew that the apartheid government were violent, and that they killed black people. ibid. Barbara Masekela
I despise them. They were full of evil. But you can’t fight discrimination as an individual. ibid. Nelson
The government took advantage of our commitment. ibid.
The police opened fire on a crowd estimated at 20,000. ibid. UK news
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and nonviolence against a government whose reply is only savage attacks. ibid. Nelson
We realised that we either had to capitulate or we stand up and fight. ibid.
Sabotage carried the death penalty. We knew that the South African government wanted to execute them. So we ran a campaign to stop the executions. We organised many campaigns. The boycott campaigns by our petitions, our demonstrations, our resolutions. ibid. Abdul Minty
The flame of resistence was being extinguished. Our house was under siege. ibid. Peter Hain
It was a global struggle against blatant racism and oppression. Ibid. Miriam Makeba
And suddenly the whole movement took off. ibid. Hain
A groundswell of black consciousness in South Africa. ibid. comment
A psychological feeling of inferiority. ibid.
Soweto: Police and army units kill nearly 260 blacks, more than half of them under the age of 18. ibid. news
Out in the streets, man, taking bullets. Their courage was unmatched. ibid. comment
United Nations’ estimates were over 1,000 dead. ibid.
The Soweto uprising. It was a moment when the earth moved. It was an act of absolute brutality which shocked the world. ibid.
Nelson Mandela: We Shall Crush Apartheid … ‘which was then smuggled out of Robben Island. ibid.
Apatheid was based upon fear, and a lack of dignity and self-respect. ibid.
The song Biko was the first overtly political song that I ever wrote. ibid. Peter Gabriel
The death of Steve Biko in a South African jail is bringing more publicity to his cause of racial justice. ibid. comment
And in freeing him [Mandela], you free the people of South Africa. ibid.
[daughter]: The people still regard him as a leader after all these years. Free Nelson Mandela II: State of Emergency
We couldn’t rest. We had to get him out. ibid. comment
It is painful. It is the reality of our struggle for freedom. ibid. Winnie
Margaret Thatcher was Reagan in a dress. ibid. comment
Bob Marley & the Wailers: War … ‘Well everything is war. Me say War!’ ibid.
The impact of the arrival of the Soweto ’76 generation on Robben Island was electric. Mandela was totally shaken by the degree of militancy of the students wanting a much more aggressive approach to getting rid of apartheid. ibid. comment
So Mandela was also my lawyer. ibid. prison guard
In 1982 the London offices of the ANC were bombed. Many saw it as a warning. ibid. UK news
Jerry Dammers comes with this song that swept the world … became the anthem of our struggle: Free, Nelson Mandela! ibid. comment
We knew that we were going to win. But we’re not sure we’ll be alive. The system wasn’t going to stop us now. ibid.
It’s a bit heartless to keep saying the ANC must abandon its violence, because that is saying that the regime is not valid … We are seeing the regime shooting down children. ibid. Oliver Tambo
I will return. Amandla! ibid. daughter delivers message to crowd
State of Emergency Declared in South Africa. ibid. newspaper
Winnie was reaching the end of her tether … She didn’t fully realise how much it had affected her. ibid. comment
That woman [Winnie] made a massive contributed to the struggle. ibid. Nelson
The Tory Party were very much in cahoots with the South African government. It was disgraceful. ibid. Jerry Dammers
March For Freedom In Namibia & South Africa! London Saturday June 28 Rally Hyde Park 11-12 Festival Clapham Common 3 PM. ibid. poster
It was a big thing for a small young girl to do. ibid. Sade
[comment] And that’s the time Mandela ended up in hospital with a prostate gland. Free Nelson Mandela III: The Whole World is Watching
How many leaders have that magnetism? ibid.
You know that this can never, has never, and will never be right. ibid. Stevie Wonder, UN speech
I ain’t gonna play Sun City! ibid. protest cong
Only a matter of time before the dominoes would fall. ibid. Steve van Zandt
Being a revolutionary was magnificent! ibid. ANC lawyer
We need it on a larger scale. I remember hearing that it was going to be called the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert: Mandela Day. ibid. Jim Kerr, Simple Mind
That global broadcast event reached 600 million people … The Apartheid Government had lost. ibid. producer
Our cause was now supported by the entire world. ibid. Nelson
Something has gone badly wrong with Winnie Mandela. ibid. comment
In the end that marriage broke down. ibid.
Thank you that you chose to care. ibid. Nelson in the UK
As long as my people were oppressed, it was my duty to be involved. ibid. Nelson
The London Docks may have been the gateway to the wealth of empire but the men who worked here were some of the poorest in Britain ... They were paid little and only by the hour. On average a docker worked three hours a day. Resentment ran high. But all this was about to change. On August 12th 1889 the London dockers fought back ... Within a week 30,000 men were on strike ... For the strikers the suffering was intense; but not only for the dockers, for their families too ... In London the dock strike took to the streets. Thousands of dockers and their families marched carrying huge banners, their children holding signs saying please feed us. Jeremy Paxman, The Victorians: Having It All, BBC 200
In September 1995 nearly 5,000 Liverpool dockers were sacked. Their fight for reinstatement has become one of the most important industrial disputes in Britain. Yet it is scarcely reported, is largely ignored by politicians and is not officially recognised by the unions. Ken Loach, The Flickering Flame, 1997
The story of the dockers is the story of a struggle for regular work, regular hours and regular pay. Everyone has a fear of going back to the bad old days. ibid.
They [employers] found a willing ally in Margaret Thatcher. And in 1989 the National Dock Labour Scheme was abolished. ibid.
The T&G had called off the strike everywhere else. ibid.
The evils of casual labour began to reappear. ibid.
329 dock workers were sacked for showing their solidarity with the Torside men. ibid.
The dockers and their families are now up against it – real hardship. ibid.
Women have got organised – Women of the Waterfront. ibid.
There has been solidarity action from dockers in twenty-two countries. ibid.