ON A miners' demonstration in Caerphilly we heard there was a meeting miners' wives in Chesterfield The next minibus was arranged on he cool gid we well We were met by Betty Heathfield when we arrived in Chesterfield Labour Club. She sat us down and started to talk about violence against women on the picket lines.
She had been on three pickets. At the first one the police moved the women where tney would nol we seen by the strikebreakers, and were told they would be arrested if they moved.
the women ran across the road where they would be seen and they were beaten and kicked back across the road.
On another occasion a police wedge drove back against WONCE barbed wire fence, behind which was a big drop to the road below. said even to shout out about it would nave beell seen provocation and meant arFrom Chesterfield we went to Ollerton Miners' Welfare where we met up with wives from Durham, Derby and The olerton women themselves.
They aISO go on the picket line, and again meet with violence dragged through a thorn.
bush, had her bead banged against wall. But they always stop the violence when the film Sindicato de Trabajadores Mineros Pedro Roque V., Mina bimon.
Leon, Central America filiated to the Sandinista Workers' Confederation.
To: Brother miners of Great Britain.
Dear Comrades, A revolutionary Sandinista greeting from the mineworkers of Nicaragua!
this would like solidarity with the struggle you are waging in your country to win trade union democracy to sustain your struggle without your rights being suppressed. heart; right and reason will win through when there is a willpower as strong as yours. conservatives and right-wingers led by the iron woman — Margaret Thatcher — but your struggle is just, and being just will win, as the old reactionary structures of capitalism are swept away by the incontainable force of the revolutionary and working class, guided by the best sons of the probrother miners in Nicaragua struggle, a struggle which will be long, cruel and full of sacrifices, but we say to you, brothers:
The struggle continues Signed: Enoc Castellon For the Union of Mineworkers Pedro Roque V.
El Limon Mine, Mary Croften The Miners' Unions of Nicaragua Afwe, ine miners of to assure you or our Brothers, we would like to tell you not to lose We know you are confronting reactionaries, of the organised and conscious - Victory is certain.
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