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On the march for Orgreave justice
The police attack on striking miners at will be once again marked as a day of infamy at the annual march and rally of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign in Sheffield next Saturday, writes Morning Star northern reporter PETER LAZENBY
Police in anti-riot gear escorting picketers away from their position near the Orgreave Coking Plant near Rotherham, June 18, 1984

THE facts of what happened at Orgreave on June 18 1984 are well known.

Armoured police launched a pre-planned attack on lightly clad striking coalminers at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire.
The police violence was probably the most brutal in the history of industrial struggle in Britain.

Ninety-five miners were arrested and dozens were subsequently dragged before the courts to face charges based on falsified police evidence. The trials collapsed.

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