36 Years Since Battle Of The Beanfield The Tories Remain Committed To Eradicating Nomadic Way Of Life – OpEd

36 years ago, on June 1, 1985, Margaret Thatcher’s para-militarised police force, fresh from suppressing striking miners, turned their attention, via what has become known as the Battle of the Beanfield, to the next “enemy within” — the travellers, environmental activists, festival-goers and anarchists who had been...