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as alel Editorial Board future of the other iwo Kent pits: Betteshanger and Snowdown present, Tilmanstone is awaiting a date fol our review procedure ap. peal meeting with the Coal Board at national level. It is at that meeting that the union will present its alternatıve plans for the pit. Then the NCB will make their dicision on the pit's future.
After that, the position is unclear. There is still no national agreement on the independent appeals body. Tilmanstone operating in the dark from inal polnt on In the meantime, the new coalface has gone into production here, and the Ter InCa cial support to every singl reacer. To e fee jasutnes in this because the weekly Socialist Action has woe a definite place for itself as part of the fighting left wing which has converged during and after the • We gave four-square support to the leadership of the NUM. We explained that in the forces sym bolised by Arthur Scargill has emerged the first class struggle current and leadership in the labour movement for decades. While Fleet Street fumed, and many sniped, Socialist Action gave a platform to the views of the NUM leadership at every level. • Socialist Action supported the black section of the Labour Party from its inception and opened its pages to the black section to argue its case in the • Socialist Action has supported the demands of women for self-organisation, and especially the development of women from the mining communities through the Women Against Pit Closures movement. We have, too, consistently reported in our pages the discussion of Labour women, and the struggles of all women at home and interna• Socialist Action has provided a channel for the Campaign Group of MPs to put forward their views when Tribune, Marxism Today and other labour papers have been closed to them, or were • Socialist Action extends support to the class particularly today We have opened our pages to the views of the FSLN, the ANC, unions in souln Africa and other forces engaged in the struggle against Apartheid. We publish the views of Sinn Fein in Ireland and we support all those engaged in a just struggle for democracy, national liberation In short, our principle has been to develop a paper which has 'no interests separate and apart from those of the working class as a whole'. We believe all our readers have an interest in maintaining and developing Socialist Action by contributing to it in and most urgently, through already coming in. A meeting of Socialist Action supporters in the NUM recently Sup• porters and readers in the NCU have each pledged £50. Socialist Action readers in North London and South Yorks have pledged a week's wages to the paper. This is the kind of support we need and are From next week the paper will carry a regula column showing our readers' response to this ap weekend conference on 16 and 17 November. Every reader should make it a priority to mobilise for this event which can be a vital opportunity to discuss the issues the paper covers every week.
Tickets can be obtained from Socialist Action, not just for yourselves, but to seli to other people who should be there. The Alliance for Socialism conference will bring together representatives of all-the forces that Socialist Action has been supporting in the last year. It can help build up the political influence of the paper and help establish as a real, and useful, part of thi We support you. Now perhaps you can suppor Judith Woodward for the Socialist Action pit showed a £97,000 pro fit for September. proving an embarrassment to the Coal Board In their desperation they even engineered lock-out at the pit, wher miners demanded the righ to hold canteen meeting to be kept informed of the situation in the coaltield All their tacties have Teec aslț now they have turned their attention to Betteshange and announced the closure of that pit.
The public must he made aware ial Ine lit tional assets of this country are going to be sacrillied the alter monetarism and anti-trad: unionism.