this week.
£5000 -our £50,000 target.
Secondly allow us to move in the very near future.
struggles in the future.
That's obviously what many of our miners' battle' That's why this fund drive is so vital.
now, before our fund drive is completed.
But if we do not grab this ooportunity to move in the future.
steps to secure the possibility of moving through.
Our production and September will therefore be as follows:
out on 25 July.
CULE COD. than usual.
every other option before we chose this one.
and expand it.
will be. And perhaps some of our missing issues over the summer. Infand 6 months £8:
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Name Address Please send me as special offer Paried By East End Offset (TU) Ltd, London E2. OUR FUND DRIVE had two huge boosts Firstly we received a reader's donation of La tremendous step on the road to we have made big steps in resolving the issue of our premises which will Moving to cheaper premises is vital to ensure that Socialist Action can be improved and expanded. Socialist Action is needed for building solidarity with struggles like the miners' strike, and other readers think too. That's why one sent us f5000 this week. We also received 20 Deutsche Marks in the post, with the message: 'a small contribution to your efforts to build the necessary solidarity with the But moving to a new premises, while it will help us expand in the long run, is a very costly business.
Moreover we have to start taking steps to move This means much short term expense and disruption.
while it is open to us, then it may be impossible to In this light we are having to take some drastic immediate v. As an emergency measure. we are coing to cut out some issues of the paper over the summer period. This both releases finances for the move and creates more time and energy to carry it schedule over July, August • JULY: next week's issue number 65 is appearing as normal but for two weeks, 11 and 18 July, there will be no paper; issue number 66 will come • AUGUST: Traditionally, the paper doesn't appear for two weeks in August. This year we intend to close down for a month. So number 67 will appear on 29 August, in time for the TUC annual • SEPTEMBER: The issue of the paper due on 5 September won't appear either. Issue number 68 will be out on 12 September. And from then on the paper will be back to normal, appearing weekly.
This emergency schedule represents 10 issues produced over 17 weeks, missing five more issues We know this is a drastic step. Especially with the miners' strike on. And we looked seriously at But it is only through these steps that we can be sure we will move to cheaper premises, and not only re-establish a regular weekly paper, but improve This is why our fund drive is not an optional extra. It needs to be at the centre of our readers' concerns in the weeks to come. And the faster we meet our f50,000 target the less disruption there we will be able to reinstate SUBSCRIBE I enclose cheque/PO payable to Socialist Action for £ .....
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read it. It was 'Dear Colleague'.
yours. I'm coal industry.
ing that the threatened will go on to winter.
Yes, we said it - after you'd been on TV saying you can stick the strike out indefinitely.
starve us back to work.
Make no mistake, Mr MacGregor, we're going to keep going till we win.
about the NUM leadership trying to destroy the industry.
laugh. We in the NUM butchering lihood? No way!
You give us view on the coal industry - low cost, high production to beat off foreign Huge sums are being invested you say.
money is going to selective areas. Half of your £800 million went for the development Special free book offer! Take out a years inland subscription and we will send you free one of these books: Thatcher and Friends by John Ross Over our Dead Bodies Women Against the Bomb Introductory offer letter last week, I began to headlined Colleague — what an insult - I'm no colleague of not in the business of butchering the You say that you're takthe unusual step of writing to us to inform us of the disastrous consequences of this strike. You've been doing it since the start of the strike through your friends in the press and television.
You go on to say Selby NUM have Main. the received million.
You said you could tary You say this strike is that.
What a see plans. our live- Yes, about £1,300 your get competition.
Sorry We know that the of We piling ourselves.
are lying Go to your for new readers: Eight issues for just £2!
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Last week lan claimed to have received 'hundreds' of replies to his letter to miners appealing for a return to work.
Socialist Action is printing just one of these letters.
Barnsley South Wales all of £13 So where's your huge investment in peripheral areas?
You say that in the short term you want to close uneconomic pits and want 20,000 volunredundancies the same as last year.
What about next year - and the year after That's 80,000 jobs. If you call that short term I'd hate to your long term we have lost each to date but your company will stand to lose a lot more when you fail to Margaret Thatcher's way in this strike.
Mac but we
won't be out to defend your job when you take the can for losing the You have been accused of butchering the industry and rightly so.
don't need our leaders to tell us this -we're capable of comthe facts can solemnly state that we - you have not got an honest bone in your body. You are nothing but hell bent on getting your own way like a spoiled child.
home MacGregor — go home £1,000,000 estate in America and leave the British mining communities alone.
Yours bitterly, Mark Thomas (Penrhiwceiber A miner's reply MacGregor The wow. wich cal Sincerely, Hoban cose Gravenor Place. London SWIX TAE NCB June. "ye Dear mileague YOUR FUTURE IN DANGE untie eat grave he serenes talky continually of keeplag the strike golng indeftnitely until hapen lever dont you scroke fovocatively of as a threat, why chat wall 10t see create higher vorte, Lover o 1s this: hand rendooby it use 729228 bl ose and ho de vetor, 1s his sty nothin
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SOCiAList Fund drive: 250,000
Dear Mr MacGregor, On receiving your begging