links that were made in the strike.
The Saturday rally gave an indication of the political situation in the mining communities, Tilmanstone pit threatened with Betteshanger miners walked out over the erosion of safety standards in the pit. Six members of Betteshanger lodge are in jail. Terry Harrison, a BetAylesham, Kent over the bank holiday weekend attracted over a thousand people. This was down on teshanger miner summed up the situation like this: 'We strained the loyalty of our members to the utmost. Twelve months on strike is no joke to a working class family. Coming out of that strike did come disillusion. It's not easy to accept the kind of things that have happened to us. eat craw with this management since they went back but one thing they'll not accept Is a that will be dictatorial about working and safety condie lessons it?
the -HIC SIGNUILD miners' strike were very much to the fore in the ralLinks that miners in Kent and the internationa. had made before, and after the strike. International visitors were preHolland Luxembourg and speakers WCLO taken Nicaraguan holidarity Salvator Solidarity CamSalvador paign and Anti-Apartheid.
A speaker from Dover drew out the links against the missiles and the DeLWCCI the struggle miners. 'We're all fighting Thatcher 'That cherism' she said. When I was at the strike the NUM.sent us support When I was on a picket outside canterouty jail protesting about the imprisonment there were lots of women in attendance.
She also pointed out that CND was experiencing the same kind of erosion of civil liberties as the had experienced.
minels 'At Molesworth at we saw the police adopting the new style tactics thes used in Ireland and 11131 then at Orgreave Perhaps the strongest feeling that out the festival 1n was support for the coming
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the attendance at last year's event which coincided with the middle of the miners' strike, but the festival provided a welcome focus to re-establish some of the