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OüR BL000 Kent miners wives who visited Greenham last weekend 'It's like the Berlin wall,' was the response of Tricia, one of the Kent v'omer shocked to Others see soldiers were carrying rifles patrolling the gates seems unbelievable that this is happening in Britain, they said.
Sue addressed
gathering of older women who had come down Greenham for the day. 'Grannies for Peace' was the theme, though some of the women objectec this: I'm not just grannie, I'm a woman in my own right.' Sue told those gathered to meet the Kent wollch. 'Mining before. They were imWIlcI Greenham women are fighting for the same thing a future for our children.' Later in the afternoon the Ken1 wullicil participated in spontaneous sit-down front of the Orange gate Women sang songs inal have become traditional at Greenham, until some the asked the miners' wives to sing one of their songs.
joined in as ever yone they sang: 'We're fighting for the miners' jobs tarrah, tar-ran/ We're fighting for the miners' lar-rah, organise/The bosses won'l believe eyes/ The miners' wives will organise/To kick MacGregor out, to kick MacGregor out.
Women staying at the Orange gate callls explained they were half the mone! senoils they received to the miners other groups struggle: Offered blankers they said: 'Send them to the miners, they need them more than us The visit, organised b! • womens sections. will help draw out links between the miners' fight for jobs and the other struggles against the government. including against the missiles Now the Kent wives will help fight for a big contingent ot on the CND march against Reagan on 9 June. losses as well because the government schools up and down the country, instead of taking advantage of falling rolls to improve educa tion by better pupilteacher ratios.
The teachers' action unusual for them..
Their militancy increased. It's the same with the rail workers claim, and with opposiabolition local government cuts.
The working class is won't be baylllz legislated out of a job.
we won't be put under Thatcher's iron heel: we will resist The Tories might have won some tactical worrins class right working against enforced unemployment, against cuts pudic scl viles against the decimation of wnole communics, short against the redistribution of wealth from working people to the rich will continue and intensity.
During these strug gles we've got to begin o win people over to the socialist measures vital to turning the Now we've begun down the road sweeping away the Tory myth that theirs is the only solution. They've got away with it for too long. Soon they' re going to get their come-uppance.
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never visited Greenham mediately struck by the militarisation of the area.
KENT MINERS' WIVES visiting Greenham Com- mon last Sunday met with an enthusiastic response from women at the camp and others down for the day. The women from the mining communities had