Can I relate Gramsci to Greenham peace women, Miners strike & Suffragettes?
I am old enough to remember Greenham and the Miners Strike (the Suffragettes were before my time though). I also remember the general debates in the Left at the time, being as I was a leftist myself. Essentially I would suggest that the counter-hegemonic nature of these movements was important. Both the strike and the peace camp spawned national movements which were counter-cultural where spaces were created in which people moved and where values, belief’s and activities were, and were intended to be, contrary to mainstream society. Then beginning with one point, the pit closure programme, the deployment of Cruise missiles, the whole philosophy of free market capitalism was discredited and alternative visions of a new society were developed for those participating in the movements. I guess the same kind of point could be made for the suffragettes, certainly Sylvia Pankhurst led a section of the movement into Bolshevism. The Gramscian theory posits that the working class must unite popu
