NEWBURY COUNCIL AND the Ministry the Greenham women. Despite the dismantling of the camp at the blue gate the other three camps are still going strong. and women are sleeping out in Gortex sleeping bags.
But the battle for Greenham camps right to exist continues.
Evictions continue and on March Newbury counci is once again altempting to get the women cleared 'their' land once and for all. Spirits are high among the women.
On 8 March Women MP's visited Greenham and women arrived spontaneously all over the country to express their solidarity with the camp.
In London 500 peace demonstrated, of Defence have not succeeded in their attempts to evict The benders (tents) are still in use Peace chaining themselves to the railing, outside a promotion Marketing Societv of America. tighteen women were arrested on charges of obstruction criminal Hallase Paint was thrown on the ground as names delegates and the cry of warmongers penetrated the length of Picadilly.
action has been forthcoming various unions involved. The National Bakers' has refused to deliver bread to the base and UCATT has offered to supply the women with wood for their fires.
and Kay Bastin The attacked with mechanical excavators. After a visit to the workers of the firm which hired them Ivewour Council, by Bristol these not • Deen used again at Greenham.
In demonstration against the evictions place which there were arrests. There have also been
The Peterloo massacre of 1819. Protestors demanding parliamentary reform were cut down by the cavalry 'JUDGES give decisions on the law and the evidence before them. Ther do so totally impartially.' No wonder Margaret Thatcher's description of the role of courts was met with derisive jeers from Labour MPs in 1981. ridiculous in 1984 when police are arbitrarily inventing new Kent miners in the Dartford tunnel.
It is astonishing that Labour MPs. and the Guardian newspaper still claim that it is a principle of democrac! that the law must always be obeyed.
Reality shows this everv malor democratic freedom wa won because people were prepared to disobey law freedoms were not the judges but people in the dock.
The struggle of the Suffragettes, the struggle for the working class right to Gandhi's VULC disobedience to gain independence for nola are lust ne best kawa crampics But nowhere has the struggle for democratic freedoms been so long and aucals even more against is nonsense.
The tounders civil pened Clerical workers demand the right to for so illegal as that for the elementary right of working people to form trade While the labour movement and the press talk of trade union rights, and the right to strike, no such right has ever been recognised in law. What has hapis simply that Parliament has been periodically forced by working alllul. intervene 'decriminalise' certain aspects of trade The fundamental and basic right to