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Give us bread but give us roses
PETER FROST remembers how important culture and music always are in any political battle, not least the miners' strike
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Culture and music are important in any political struggle. Songs and theatre are another way to win minds, put over political ideas and boost morale in any struggle and that was certainly true when Maggie Thatcher declared war on the coal industry and the miners early in 1984.
With a small group of communists in Watford I had been helping to run a left-wing agitprop cabaret club.
We called it The Red Wedge after the famous Soviet lithograph Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge by Lissitzky.
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