Kathleen Mickells (born 1951) is an American

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worker, coal miner and activist with the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Mickells was born in

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and worked at the Cumberland Mine in Greene County, Pennsylvania before being laid off in 1987. In 1986, she led a delegation of American women coal miners to tour coal fields in the

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. In that same year, Mickells attended the International Miners Organisation meeting also in the United Kingdom. In 1987, she was part of the SWP delegation which attended the 75th anniversary of the founding of the

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, which was held in Arusha,

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due to the apartheid policies in

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Campaigns

In 1983 Mickells ran for commissioner in

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, and received 7% of the vote. In 1985, she ran a

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campaign for the

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. In 1988, Mickells ran as the vice presidential candidate alongside James Warren on the SWP ticket. The Warren/Mickells pair received 15,602 votes nationally. In 1991, Mickells ran as the SWP candidate for

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, saying she would bring a

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worldview to city politics. She finished in sixth and last place of the declared candidates, with 1,811 votes.

References

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