GREENHAM EVERYWHERE | Socialist Action 1983

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few voices could be heard condemning it for illegality.

The government simply warned about the use of troops, and the possibility of demonstrators being fired on as a result. Fear tactics used by the government only succeeded In winning the Greenham women more sympathy.

1913 George Lansbury (hardly a revolutionary) said of the suffragettes:

'When are tricked and deceived, when Parliament betrays its sacred trust, you have the right to rebel. It is the only course left open to you. I ask that all of us here will stand shoulder to shoulder with the * militant women; hold them up in the fight they are waging. Let them burn destroy property! Let them do anything they will; and for every / leader that is taken, dozen step forward to take their places.. this is a holy war!' It would be nice to hear Neil Kinnock say the same about the Greenham women today. ALICE COOK & GWYN KIRK РИЛО 4 PRESS The pictures and quotes from Greenham women on these pages 'Greenham Women Everywhere' (Pluto Press). Copies ITOM Bookshop, 328 Upper St., London N1, price f3.50 plus 50p post and packing.

Socialist Action 9 December 1983