Wildcat wouldn't have described themselves as anarchists but the AnarComNetwork have reprinted one of their pieces to mark the anniversary
"Why are union officials so hostile to women becoming more actively involved in the strike? This demand challenges the very heart of trade unionism. For once you let the miners wives into the branch meetings, and elect them onto strike committees, a precedent is established. Once non-miners are allowed to fully participate in the strike, the way is open for more and more people to be drawn into the struggle until what you have is no longer a trade union dispute but a mass strike! In this situation, union leaders would lose any special claim to authority. They recognise this threat to their power. They are afraid of women activists who bluntly refuse to do what they tell them. No wonder they tell the women to “get back to the kitchens”." The Miners Strike – 40 years on.
Invisible or just underrated? Thoughts on anarchist solidarity with the Miners’ Strike of 1984-85
"I think the anarchist disinterest in recruiting and self-promotion (certainly compared to the ‘revolutionary parties’ of the left), coupled with their involvement with the grassroots action partly explains why their actions are now less visible. ‘The strategy, if we could give it so grand a title, that many anarchists adopted was to support the miners. Consequently much of that support work relied on having conversations with miners and their families and working out how we could help them. That help was very rarely trumpeted, just done. Maybe printing leaflets and posters, helping with food provision, sitting on picket lines to give some a break, organising speaking events for miners both here and overseas. Sometimes just listening and occasionally trying to answer questions about what we felt was going on “out there”. Consequently for the historians there is not a lot of hard material they can use.’" [quoting Barry Pateman]
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