Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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Women Against Pit Closures: you can't kill the spirit
Women who fought to save a Yorkshire coal mine have produced a book recording their experiences. PETER LAZENBY reports
Spraypainting the pit yard
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A QUARTER of a century ago the Tory government under prime minister John Major launched its final attack on Britain’s publicly owned deep coalmining industry with a huge round of pit closures in preparation for the industry’s privatisation.
The challenge did not go unanswered. Women in coalmining communities established protest camps at seven threatened pits.
The occupants of one of the camps, at Houghton Main Colliery in Yorkshire, have now told their story, not just as a piece of labour movement history, but as an inspiration to new and forthcoming generations of women.
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