I'm not going back to the kitchen sink | Socialist Action 1983

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WOMEN DIDN'T start organising at the beginning of the strike at Bold, it was the tenth week before we got going. And at first there was just a handful of us, but now we've got forty or fifty women involved.

We mainly organise the food. And I want to say that some of our women work for 11 hours a day in the canteen and they not paid for it. Most of us wouldn't do that even if we were paid for it. Lorraine Johnson, Bold women's support group I admire those women work they dong and I think everyone else should too.

But we also have been speaking at meetings and have been on the picke lines. Before this strike it wasn't just that had never spoken at a meeting — I had never even been to meeting. That's changed now. Sutcliffe, Kay Sutcliffe's husband!

When Kay started doing meetings in London she was introduced as Kay Sutcliffe, Kent miner's wife. Now when I speak, I'm introduced as Philip I'm not a philosopher or a prophet. I don't read Marx or Lenin. I'm a miner and I'm proud to be a miner, I'm proud of my class and I want to fight for it. I just want to fight for peace and true socialism for the working people of the whole