Two devastated communities meet in an abandoned mining village(1) in northern England. One by the closure of the coal mines by Thatcher's disastrous neoliberal policy and the other by the Islamic State, Thatcher and the Islamic State one and the other face of destruction, Syrian refugees on the one hand, occupying the abandoned matches of the miners, and some reactionary xenophobes on the other hand, on the one hand the destruction of Palmyra and the cultures of the Middle East and on the other hand the deindustrialisation of Northern England.
The village pub, which hardly remained open, functioned as a unifying and reconciling public space thanks to the sensitivities of its kind-hearted owner Tommy Joe, Syrian refugee Yara, and some solidarity workers who found themselves in solidarity with their friends and their racism. Because this solidarity, which is not charity, is the participation of all. "When we eat together, we are together," says Tommy Joe from his time as a miner, and Yara repeats it when soup kitchens are organized in a pub hall.
In "Go Back to Your Country," Yara calmly replies, "That's what we want." "This beauty makes you hopeful, hope takes strength and faith."
Fiction, with elements of reality, ends with reconciliation.
(1) In March 1984 the British Coal Agency announced the closure of 20 mines and the reduction of annual production. 20,000 miners found themselves without work. The National Union of Mineworkers reacted immediately. A strike was decided. February 1979, preceded by a 9-month strike period, was the most important month in the history of the British labour movement since 1926 On 4/5/1979 Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister. Implement policy neoliberal views. There was integration between Thatcher and the trade unions with an uncompromising stance on both sides. During the miners' struggle with the conservatives, the state used every means at its disposal. The Thatcher government passed a law amending Article 6 of the Social Security Code which provided that "Miners' children and wives are no longer entitled, as in the past, to welfare benefits during the strike." The strikers lived with the support of the solidarity workers. After 12 months and the use of force by the police, the strike ended. The government closed 25 mines, instead of the 20 originally planned.
The village pub, which hardly remained open, functioned as a unifying and reconciling public space thanks to the sensitivities of its kind-hearted owner Tommy Joe, Syrian refugee Yara, and some solidarity workers who found themselves in solidarity with their friends and their racism. Because this solidarity, which is not charity, is the participation of all. "When we eat together, we are together," says Tommy Joe from his time as a miner, and Yara repeats it when soup kitchens are organized in a pub hall.
In "Go Back to Your Country," Yara calmly replies, "That's what we want." "This beauty makes you hopeful, hope takes strength and faith."
Fiction, with elements of reality, ends with reconciliation.
(1) In March 1984 the British Coal Agency announced the closure of 20 mines and the reduction of annual production. 20,000 miners found themselves without work. The National Union of Mineworkers reacted immediately. A strike was decided. February 1979, preceded by a 9-month strike period, was the most important month in the history of the British labour movement since 1926 On 4/5/1979 Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister. Implement policy neoliberal views. There was integration between Thatcher and the trade unions with an uncompromising stance on both sides. During the miners' struggle with the conservatives, the state used every means at its disposal. The Thatcher government passed a law amending Article 6 of the Social Security Code which provided that "Miners' children and wives are no longer entitled, as in the past, to welfare benefits during the strike." The strikers lived with the support of the solidarity workers. After 12 months and the use of force by the police, the strike ended. The government closed 25 mines, instead of the 20 originally planned.