Solidarity Conference | Socialist Action 1983

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task as campaigning around amnesty.

'Our immediate aim as miners wives is to fight for the amnestv and reinstate. ment of all sacked and jailed miners We will continue to speak at meetings. organise rallies, demonstrations and make people aware this demand.

The conference also urged women to support build NOMPAS. Doreen Humber, a miner's a member of NOMPAS, underlined the annesy issue explained the NOMPAS building a national campaign around this issue The Women's Solidarity conference called for a lobby of Neil Kinnock at the National Labour Party women's conference to express disgust at his total lack of support miners and to press for amnesty of all sacked and jailed miners.

Members of the Labour Party were urged to put resolutions to their branches and Constituencies calling on the Labour Party to commit itself to full reinstatement of sacked miners and the release of all political prisoners The Come enco asO registered the attacks that being the Tory government. Women are particularly vulnerable because incy among the lowest paid workers.

women black women and lesbian womer face greater discriminatior still.

The conference urged women to give backing to the fight against privatisa tion and the demonstraAddenbrookes hospital; fight the racist nationality bills and support the black community's battles against deportation; demonstrate against Gillick on June 24 in support of the right of young women to be allowcontraceptive advice and to support the Lesbian Strength march on Women Against Pit Closures Birmingham Women's Action Committee, the National Abortion Campaign, the El Salvador Solidarity Cam. paign, Women on Ireland and lesbian women all held well attended meetings at Junch time Maira O'Shea, the Irish arrested wollial under the PTA and charged under the law addressed the meeting Miners wives from Kent Nottingham, Nortr Staffs iNe wiended and Yorkshire attended They came to share their experience with women involved in other liberation tivities. The attendance was not as representative the organisers had the conference in relation to the end of the strike.

But it gave a boost to the organisation of women Birmingham and the West Midlands and provided a torum to strengthen the links that have been made among during this dispute.

Youth Fightback Day School Sunday 12 May, llam Lesbian & Gay Centre, Corporation street, Birmingham For more information or a speaker at your YS then please contact Mark Holland, Flat 2, 10 Sandford Rd, Birmingham B13 9BU

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Socialist Action 10 May 1985

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