shower, but everyone is very friendly. rector makes a demagogic speech: olace in the arternoon. van key to the SWP. I politely refuse. SATURDAY 9 MAY: we stay in the worst ac commodation yet, a disused factory in ConCheshire, with no washing facilities.
The Tories once again show their 'sympathy' for the unemployed by denying us town hall SUNDAY: after a fractious start, because two members of the march have been threatened with expulsion for unsocial behaviour, pithead baths at Walstanton by miner Keith Lockett. It's probably a bit of a shock for the miners coming up from the pit to see females waiting to evening | get a shock when on entering the Kidsgrove working men's club there's a large sign above the snooker table play polite discussion takes place between Phil, one of the miners, and me, which we are told that 'tradition is tradition', rules are there to be obeyed and that women can't play snooker because 'they don't work we march to Stoke, where the social security make up for the insecurity felt by the toreman or fitter made redundant for The sun is shining as we march down the Meir Road. Loads of people come out of the factories to greet us, and the march swells in chief marshall, had tried to expel two SWP The 'democratic assembly' had previously decided that no one should be expelled without the marchers agreeing to this The stewards recommended the reinstate ment of the two marchers and the SWP successfully press for the disciplinary decisions to be transferred to the stewards rather than the democratic assembly. Nerves are strainStafford - once again we are greeted by the drive the mini-bus | go off to visit Rists, Belstaff's and Silverdale, and Hem Heath collieries. Through John Deason, the SWP has tended to dominate the delegation up At lunchtime I'm invited to give up the In the afternoon we visit Walstanton colliery where two of the marchers speak and urge miners to come out on 31 May for the naunemployment.
live!' right in England", John Ball said, perty is held in common. hung, Mail.
Benn argues:
government.
argued that men ing enough of a profit.
'An injury to one is an injury to all, ' he says, explaining why people should oppose 'If all men and women are brothers and sisters then they have an equal right to govern the country in which they Referring to the rebels of the past - Wat Tyler, John Ball, the Hedgerow Priest - Benn explains the socialist philosophy behind early peasant rebellions: 'All things will not come 'until all pro John Ball was drawn, and quartered for his views then. Now they do it in the Sun and the Daily 'What the French munists and socialists have done in France in electing Francois Mitterand, the English people would do when they got rid of the Tory Bellows the Quaker, Robert Owen who formed the first national trade union, the Chartists and the suffragettes all and women should be treated equally and not discarded by those who own the wealth when they are not mak-