Poem featured in 'Women’s Pit Prop' March 1985
We are women, we are strong,
We are fighting for our lives
Side by side with the men,
Who work the Nations mines,
United by the Struggle
United by the Past and it's
Here we go, Here we go
For the women of the Working Class.
We don't need Government's Approval
For anything we do
We don't need their permission
To have a point of view
We don't need anyone to tell us what to think or say
We've strength enough and wisdom of our own
To go our own way.
Chorus
They talk about statistics
About the price of Coal
The cost is our communities
Dying on the dole
In fighting for our future
We found ways to organise
Where women's liberation failed to move
This strike has no delight.
Chorus
Ours is a Unity, that threats can never breach
Ours an Education, Books nor Schools could never terach
We face the taunts
The violence of Maggie's thugs in blue
But when we're fighting for survival
We've got nothing - nothing left to lose.
Chorus
Poem featured in 'Women's Pit Prop' March 1985
Ref: MS84/MW/5/4
