This is a brilliant political film, one of the finest products of the anti-Thatcher cinema, offering a somewhat unconventional analysis of the class structure of the UK drawing on the work of the great literary critic/historian RAymond Williams and invoking such almost-forgotten examples of working-class cultural phenomena as the workingmen's collective libraries of the late 19th-century. These are juxtaposed with contemporary organizing efforts, mainly led by women in the embattled mining communities of the north. Sorry to make it sound dry and didactic; it's anything but, and the women are stirring to watch. Very intelligent and moving.
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