NUM in Spain

A delegation of British striking miners from the Doncaster area have gone to the mining regions of Spain on a visit organised by the DAM and the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union, the CNT-AIT.

The NUM members have addressed a number of public meetings and have been interviewed on radio and television, they have also received a fair amount of attention in the Spanish press. One hack journalist, who had he been working in this country would no doubt be employed by the SUN, reported; that the NUM delegation were the same miners who started the strike in Britain and had come to Spain to start a general strike. A local pit manager on reading this article, gave orders that the British miners should not be allowed to visit his pit to address the workers.

The miners who are accompanied by a DAM interpreter shall finish their visit in Barcelona before returning to Britain.

From Direct Action 18, (September 1984) https://libcom.org/article/direct-action-18-september-1984