women textile workers in New York. unite!
Women Against Pit Closures the vanguard of revolutionary action. As we celebrate International Three quarters of a century later, women around the world still struggle against exploitation as workers and peasants, and against their special oppression as women. This supplement for Women's Day 1989, and contemplate the struggles to come, this International Women's Day 1989 focusses on women's role in the History tells that socialist women have frequently played a key role in women's struggles, and that women have always been in working class movement and mass struggles in Europe. is valuable food for thought.
Page 13 Euro-communists like Bea Campbell have attacked the tactics of the 1984 miners' movement as an argument against 'macho' class struggle politics. Five years after NUM leaderslup were responsible for the defeat of the miners, and that This was one of a series of articles politics of class struggle in the lahour movement and bending to the tide of strike, and attempted to use the success of the Women Against Pit Closures the great strike began, VALERIE COULTAS argues that on the contrary, the women's mobilisation built on the traditional class consciousness of the mining communities with political strength'. In short, she claimed the violent tacties of the Women Against Pit Closures was not part of this but reflected of the more sophisticated politics of the women's at the time aimed at discrediting the New Realism, the idea that resisting Thatcherism is impossible and that strike action is 'economistic': Five years on from that strike this general idea has become even more cominion al leadership and even rank and filc levels of the labour movement. The to produce a stronger socialist consciousness - from which all women can learn.