By Margaret Jones (Lancaster and Morecombe Miners' Support Group) TRADE unionists, unemployed people, students and pensioners of Lancaster have joined together to organise the North and Central Lancashire leg of the North West Peoples March against unemployment and pit closures.
'Unite the struggles' has been the banner under which Lancaster and Morecombe Miners' Support Group has organised the community's fight back against Tory attacks.
Bus, rail, clerical and communications workers, as well as teachers, lecturers and unemployed people have come together to form a fighting united front against ruling class attacks. The focus of the campaign has been the fight to save Parkside pit.
The march is the culmina. tion of eight months of intense struggle since the pit closures were announced last year.
Central to this struggle has been the organisation and effort of women workers in Lancaster.
Their involvement in the Lanacashire Women Against Pit Closures movement has spurred the development of the fightback against Tory attacks.
They are a key force in or. leg of the North West March