PREPARE A GENERAL STRIKE! MONDAY'S High Court against Arthur Scargill and the NUM was brought isolated scabs in Yorkshire. But it shows the entire road onto which the Thatcher government is now being forced.
The aim of the writ is not to imprison Scargill. would be a grotesque miscalculation by the government. The real threat is to seize the assets of the NUM, For Thatcher now grip around the power stations inexorably tightening. If she cannot stop the NUM in the next few weeks she is faced with the threat of the greatest defeat ever suffered by a British government at the hands of the working class.
The entire British class is determined that this must not occur. That everything must be done to prevent it.
And despite the huge pressure the TUC and Labour leadership is trying to bring to bear for a compromise' solution the leadership has still not moved one inch on the central issue of pit closures. With the militants in the movement swinging strongly behind the Thatcher simply may not be able to create enough pressure to force the TUC to impose the type of defeat she needs on the NUM That is why the ruling class is now turning to the courts. They want the full majesty of their law, their courts, and their judges to back up their police and their violence. all before government is humiliated.
Because if the courts can impose their law on the NUM it would be a gigantic defeat for the entire labour movement. And if the NUM defeats a legal attack on it, it is the beginning of the end for the Thatcher government.
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Against this scale of attack the financial material help of the last seven months is enough. A legal attack on the NUM, the sequestration of must be met by industrial action by the entire working class. As Denis Skinner says on this page a legal attack on the NUM must be met with a general strike to defeat it. Such a threat is also the best way to head off any of Thatcher on the Whatever occurs in the next few days militants must fight for • An emergency meeting of the General Council of the TUC to decide that any legal attack on the NUM will be met with a general by left wing union leaders and leaders of the Labour Party for industrial action to defend the NUM against every possible group of workers - starting with key sections such as Fleet Street, transport workers that any legal action on the NUM will be met with all out industrial
Socialist Action 5 October 1984