III‑ Industrial conflict
•Economic deterioration under Thatcher weakened unions and reduced strikes to record low levels
•Coal Strike of 1984‑85 
–Most important strike since 1926
–Lasted full year, March to March
–Complete defeat for miners and their Marxist president, Arthur Scargill
Lasted full year, March to March,
   Over the issue of the right of the Coal Board to close uneconomic mines

Complete defeat for miners and their Marxist president, Arthur Scargill
Union committee voted to go back to work against advice of executive with 1/2 the miners already crossing picket lines to work and courts seizing most of the union's funds