movement.
ches in women have been active.
i domite all this ac tivity Labour Party have not yet their own demands WUlE for more power and more representation in the party The Labommitemen s Action Committee holding its AGM in Birmingham this weekend, and at the centre of its discussion will be how women in use valv can make amer advances in the coming year.
1985 must be the year of building on the tremengiven to women's demands oy the the mining culllmunities.
Scargill described the movement as *too powertul to Ignore. This understanding, which themselves torced upon the NUM, has to be generalised to the abour movement.
But not everyone in the movement is seeking the support of women, a Hot decader of male prejudices privilege. It is because they know that women elected their own represenalves Wolle the women who support the policies of women's conference.
This would seriously upset the whole apple cart whereby the trade union leaderships, wielding their bloc votes, determine the policy and priorities of the Labohen WAC raises its When demand for power in the party it is not lust demanding power IN THE LAST nine months Labour women have Labour women campaigned against strip searArmagh jail and successfully changed Labour Party policy on them. In every campaign and struggle, like at Greenham Common. Labour but it is challenging the structure Ene Labour Party for the vens ones existence waca has ensured it has remainea a bad com promises rather than a party of struggle.
To win such a tough battle WAC needs to be needs to make. Over the nical veart has to organise its women supporters the unions, in the CLPs, among the youth. It has to ›e at the forefront of turn ing the Labour Party outwards towaras ine mass movements of women and it has to deepen its links will ne tell-wing or lne labour movement. YORK SHIRE CO MINENSWIVES SUPPORT GROUP OT
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been at the forefront of building support for the miners, through linking up with the miners' wives