AS THE miners' strike enters its seventeenth week the hardship being faced by the miners and their families is deepening. In continues.
JUDE CLIFFE, we hearing about Maybe keeping our from people C0lu0l.
chair of the area. many areas spoke to KAY SUTthe Aylesham support group in There are Canterbury Dover wnere organised.
march we had of Doncaster Not810181 met some Staffs, women explained there were meetings. SECIIS be LILLK are not getwe are closely with the locally. they know that what we do helps them.
In Staffs they have been finding it very hard to The NUM does CL HURCy• not help with Down when we we bring help us with the transport. that this the same everywhere, inclined to should women Down неге it is heard any stay a LOlC.
coordinate bit becaust doesn't COLiY much as are a well-organised are so few Decausc Up to now the wonel.
individually, need to coordinate more. In Aylesham GOIU even know what women in Deal or kansgalt , are do ing, even though they are So coser pere S Decausc we are so busy. We need to do more to bring women in other areas. easier for us because it's a close community and there BOS WANS someone to nelp with child Lasc Wllaicvel.
We also need more national cooromalion. But that would have to come through the NUM. It is ex. ceedingly difficult to coordinate just in this area, let alone more than that. But if the NUM set up a national office, and organised things from Sheffield then think we would work towards more national coordination. Then we'd learn from the ways different groups of women are doing things.
We will need to ocallse strike is going to Decatlse go on. the After skeel weeks you don't suddenly give up and decide to go back to work. Our morale high. We're not giving in.
Black sections:
If this is the case how can a movement of class conscious workers seek to divide weaken the Simple!
cries Bob Lee WOrKHY - they are among middle class blacks' must therefore assume that in the current situation of deepening class polarisation, that the black sections movement presently constituted would have an affinity for the right wing the movement.
furthermore that the righl wing would recognise the utility of the black sections as a means of derailing the black movement!
interested observers it seems that on Dul inis question il is vur culnent Marxist who has an open affinity for the right winfihe problem for Bob the whole Dulcil. the their theoretical poverty. Despite their rhetoric, and their huffing and putting, they downgrade the strugpe or otack noclalun he status of a side issuenot realising that especially for the class struggle in liberation is Britain, black an absolutely central aspecI. Unity The question of class reducible to unily is no organisational homogenei socialist policies, but consists of forging that unity through creating the necessary alllances bet. ween the different sectors of the oppressed and ex ploited masses.
Contrary to Bob Lee's pronouncements, the acis that long as black people remain unorganisea in the structures of the movement there will be the socialist answ Youno so palise ASN NE Sasuarss 10am a persistent class dis-unity.
The self-organisation self-activity Up pressed sectors of society is question absolute principle for the working the only guarantee that the labou cass Movellicill can ever be made the representative of all the oppressed. struggle against racism will other WOrdS the only be adopted as a major concern LD C movement in a meaningful way black people organising to make it so.
If comrade Lee con tinues against the real dynamic of himself struggle unfolding, neulc labour movement then the will find that they will increasingly come in handy as a tool o the right wing to be used to SasIi uD tic forces accumulating on the left including in the black section.
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organisation of women around the strike that is do- ing most to alleviate this, and ensure that the strike
isation of women in Kent