NOMPAS exists to help the families of imprisoned miners. Sometimes women have to NOMPAS is backed by the Haldane Society and if the prisoners don't get their rights then the lawyers we are in contact with will make sure It helps a lot if we on the outside make sure those on the inside are not isolated, that they're NOMPAS is holding a conference in Sheffield contacted at 5, Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, TEACHERS UNION activists in Wuppertal, West Germany are organising a nationally coordinated campaign to support sacked and imprisoned miners and their families.
List of individuals are being circulated in their local area for support to adopt by sending money and messages of support.
The GIM (West German section of the Fourth International) has set up a special fund to raise money for Dennis Pennington sacked miner from Bold Lancashire who has just been released from prison.
This is a new column in our paper designed to highlight the campaign for an Amnesty for sacked and imprisoned miners. If you have any relevant information please tel. 01-254 0261 4e. THE MIDLANDS Women's Co-ordinating Committee is hosting the national women's solidarity conference in Birmingham this coming Saturday. The leaflet advertising the conference explains why women from the mining community in the Midlands and file of the labour movement who fought with us during the strike' The women's support groups are continuing to function in the mining communities.
against pit closures; the campaign for amnesty and NOMPAS, the campaign established to campaign OTI also want to stay togelne.
fight on wider issues of oppression.
we to organise around women from every Walk OI lite like singie mothers and homelessness as well.
The has consequent v been organised to deal with the 'We are not going back to our kitchens, we want out the wider links women women from the Calls Women Against Closures, Greenham Women, en involved in the Barking hospital dispute and black women will join together discuss the lessons of their struggles.
Lesbians Against Pit Closures, the Abortion Campaign, Armagn women and women from the peace movement will those groups holding fringe OVCI the lunchtime. Miners' wives whose husbands have been sacked or imprisoned such as Liz French from Kent and Doreen Humber from Nottingham been asked to address the final session.
Many women in the communities not only gained sense of power from their ability to organise as women during this dispute, but they have also taken the decision to join the ACKSON trom Bold, Lancashire, explains why this is the case despite the treacherous role Neil Kinnock. *he puris sup pored to people, but Neil Kinnock working people, puts down working people. During the strike he did not support us, now that it is over he has attacked men have been victimised.
thousand of miners' wives who are not going back to the kitchen. We have to join the Labour Party and change it into a real working class Dally At up-coming Bourne mouth (16-18 June) there is a resolution tabled from Islington South Finsbury to allow Women Against Pit Closures to affiliate to the party and its organisation I ne section of ine Labour rarty, alread. one of the bastions of the left within the party. wil be immeasurably strengthened if this resolution is passed.
The NUM is discussing a change In its allow women to become associalt members. The Follow the Us cam should ple welcome the women from the mining communities into the structures of the party.
• The conference venue Digbeth Civic Hall. ed and 50p unwaged, takes place from ' am. The conference is due to finist at 5.30 and a creche is pro tor turther intor mation phone on 021-745 3233, or Ellen or 0203 395972.
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THE DECISION by the TGWU to hold a re-ballot in the general secreta:: clection has exposed the real purpose of the media campaign against the union. In the last few weeks the campaign has been based on a handful of proven cases of irregularities, and a great deal of rumour. Now that the union has gone for a behind him with a much more explicit campaign as Ene recede n will change the direction or lne union. luis subourt will be vital for him.
George Henderson and Socialist Action 3 May 1985
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to repay the support we received from blacks, les- bians and gays, from the peace movement, the rank
BLACK DELEGATION O THE MINING COMMUNITIES