The movement is credited with bringing feminist ideas into practice in an industrial dispute and empowering women to take a public role in a community with a male-dominated sphere.
Their group and support work grew from the communal feeding of families in April and May 1984 to a more explicitly political role.
They began to march with their men, and attend rallies and meetings, learning all the time Previously non-political, reserved women emerged as gifted creators, and spoke at meetings in order to raise money to continue the task ahead of them.An early event was a rally at the end of May 1984, held in Barnsley which was attended by 5000 women from coalfields across the country, from Scotland to Kent.
We averted our eyes as we marched past Thatcher's residence to show our contemptThe name Women Against Pit Closures was adopted at a national delegate conference in Chesterfield in December 1984 and the group sought Associate Membership of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).
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