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No longer satisfied with playing second fiddle
John Green talks to EMILY INGRAM whose moving documentary charts the remarkable resilience of Doncaster women at the time of the miners’ strike of 1984
WORKING CLASS HEROINES: Few outside of the UK’s former mining towns and villages remember Women Against Pit Closures (WAPC), a radical women’s movement that ensured miners and their families were fed and clothed during the strike of 1984 - 1985
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THE national miners’ strike of 1984/85 was probably, apart from the 1924 General Strike, the most traumatic and iconic working-class struggle of the 20th century.
Although a number of films have been made about that strike, the role women played in it has not been given the coverage it deserves.
Women in the past have always been there supporting men in their struggles, for the first time during this strike they set up their own parallel organisation, Women Against Pit Closures (WAPC) and what became known as “the fight for jobs.”
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