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Title	:	The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners
Author	:	Seumas Milne
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 440 pages
Published	:	September 17th 2004 by Verso (first published December 1994)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Politics. History

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Margaret Thatcher branded the leaders of the 1984-85 miners strike “the enemy within.” With the publication of this book, the full irony of that accusation became clear. Seumas Milne revealed for the first time the astonishing lengths to which the government and its intelligence machine were prepared to go to destroy the power of Britain’s miners’ union. There was an enemy within. It was the secret services of the British state, operating inside the NUM itself.

Milne revealed for the first time the astonishing lengths to which the government and its intelligence machine were prepared to go to destroy the power of Britain’s miners’ union. Using phoney bank deposits, staged cash drops, forged documents, agents provocateurs and unrelenting surveillance, M15 and police Special Branch set out to discredit Scargill and other miners’ leaders. Planted tales of corruption were seized on by the media and both Tory and Labour politicians in what became an unprecedentedly savage smear campaign.

In this new edition, published for the twentieth anniversary of Britain’s most important postwar social confrontation, new material brings the story up to date  – and, in the wake of the Iraq war intelligence scandals, highlights the continuing threat posed by the security services to democracy today.

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Original Title:	The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against The Miners
ISBN:	1844675084 (ISBN13: 9781844675081)
Edition Language:	English

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Really interesting read, and really important to understand the role of "counter-subversion" in the role of the state against any form of social change. The book does not discuss the actual strike much, rather focuses on the scandals surrounding Scarlgill and the NUM after the strike. It starts a little dry as it establishes the facts of payments, however this is necessary to know the facts before the scandals are dissected. Milne goes into great detail to illustrate the entire array of tricks

An interesting tale of duplicity and double dealing both within the ranks of the NUM, the trade union movement and the U.K Security services and police.I chose to read this book following Seumas Milne's appointment at Director of Communications for the Labour Party by Jeremy Corbyn. This book pretty much explains the roots of Corbynism and the leftist backlash against the neoliberal economic consensus of mainstream politics that has been prevalent since the Thatcher administration. This book

By 1983, all of the British Left was working for MI5, apart from Ben Elton, who was entirely sincere in his socialist principles. The Soviet leadership was also controlled by MI6, and the stage was set for a sinister inter-departmental squabble to be played out by proxy using innocents who had no idea of the real meaning of their actions. When Thatcher realised the truth and couldn't accept it, she had to be removed.

If only half of what is claimed is true... then we should all be afraid.I am under no illusion that there are differing degrees of freedoms and have long held the view that the freedoms that we have are those that are permitted and the views that we are allowed are those that can be controlled. I am not so naive that I believe all law enforcement and government bodies work tirelesly for our individual benefit... no.... I understand that governments of all hues undertake actions that they believe

This was more enjoyable than I thought it might be. Not definitive account of the strike despite what Naomi Klein says on the back of the book as mainly focuses of the intelligence and propaganda war waged against the miners union. It very effectively disproves the accusations of corruption against Scargill et all and is properly referenced. It's nice to read a book with proper notes that are easy to refer to and a decent index .Interesting walk-on part for Alistair Campbell when he was still at

great read

Can only be 5 stars. An excellent account of the 1984/1985 miners strike and the depths that the Thatcher government went to destroy what was a very profitable industry just because the awful woman had got into a hissy fit about the Tories being defeated by the miners in the seventies. The fact that the secret service MI5 etc spent time trying to discredit the NUM insyead of concentrating on more important issues is a lessonn from history that we shouldn't forget