that can be witnessed in of Silentthe struggles night, the printers, the slate quarry workers, and Women Against Pit CLOSUTeS The only crime of the NUM to fight for Was jobs. In doing so the miners union challenged the right of the employers cut livelihoods, challenged the heart of the system, and asserted the miners rights to determine their own futures.
NUM lost In asserting right As incitment riot. All In the police COldemned.
once again called NUM Closures associate 'people profit' the ineffective weapon fighting against jobs.
this The John Golding their around chestrated anti-Militant executive members has Through the strike the miners had learnt of the suffering of black men and women, and received the support of many black communities.
The Chartists, the Tolpuddle HalLyls the Suffragettes the Greenham women were not defeated declared Scargill. As far as the achievements of the strike 'the can't be measured in days weeks but will be numbered in years.
Scargill said there had been a decimation of the South Wales coalfield when there should have been 12 new pits. Labour rarty poncy Is to stop nuclear power stations an LOUS shoul be plemented.
On Libya Scargill con sidered that support for Reagan's attack to be the act of someone unfit to govern The Labour Party should not be pursuing a policy o witch hunts but the figh the government. Within 24 hours of the Labour Part Power neu ases should be out of th country.
It was the first time Arthur Scargill had spoken in the South Wales coalfield since the strike.
would get them kicked off.
In reality EC candidates the BL slate have always been reluctant to identify too closely with the BL, hut in addition alls are bein made from vithin the B away from Militant supporters, up alternative left' organisato What will really determine the fate of the current left on the EC will be it's failure to launch any fight throughout the miners strike on pay or