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Podcast: Standard Issue Podcast
Episode: Lorraine Stansbie and Kate Flannery are Iron Ladies
Description: Iron Ladies is a new documentary about the women of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike, a time in which working-class women who found themselves at the forefront of a battle against the British state. They fast became the backbone of the fight: organising pickets; keeping families fed, and raising cash to continue the strike. As Lorraine Stansbie and Kate Flannery – two of those redoubtable women – tell our Mick, it changed them. And not only them; it’s fair to say their actions reshaped the landscape of political activism for working-class women forever.
Iron Ladies is currently showing in cinemas a...