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We host monthly socialist feminist book clubs in London, Sheffield and on Zoom. Check back here for upcoming meetings, or sign up to our mailing lists and get details direct to your inbox. To join write to: womensfightback@workersliberty.org SOUTH LONDON Sunday 14 April 7pm, Effra Social Club, Brixton. Never The Same Again: Women and Miners' Strike 1984-5, by Jean SteadEVENTBRITE SHEFFIELD
The 1984-5 miners’ strike is a moment ripe with lessons and with stories that are devastating and inspiring in equal measure. Among them is the incredible story of the coalfield women. The women’s support movement whirred into action only a few short weeks after the strike began on 6 March 1984. Support groups were set up in every coalfield by local women, predominantly the wives, sisters and daughters of miners. They would keep the strike going for 12 long months. Class
While the subject of a community roundtable meeting Thursday was tagged as “downtown safety,” it was clear from the first comments what the true issue was going to be: Homeless