'Mon the Workers Interview: Margot Russell & the Miners Strike

Welcome to 'Mon the Workers. In these special episodes of the podcast, we’ll be hearing from some of the people who spoke to Daniel Gray for the STUC book ‘Mon the Workers: Celebrating 125 Years of the Scottish Trades Union Congress. Published by Luath Press and available in all the usual places, it includes interviews with 75 trade unionists and portrait photographs of a further 50.

This time, we hear from Margot Russell. Though the miners’ strike of 1984 ended in defeat, there were victories of solidarity and organisation, and moments of lifechanging inspiration. Margot helped run a soup kitchen in Midlothian and like her friends volunteering there was politicised for life, and is still a local councillor today. Here, Margot begins her story at the point she began working.

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