State of siege | Socialist Action 1983

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FOR THE LAST seven months Labour Party activists have been prominent in miners' support committees up and down the country. Despite the obvious support for the miners from the party's rank and file, leader Neil Kinnock has sat weak-kneed on the fence.

dole out even-handed, high-minded condemnations of violence 'whatever its source'. Time and again he has played right into the hands of Thatcher and her media sycophants, adding criminalisation of the mining communities.

knocked off that fence, when it voted two to one on a card vote to condemn the state-organised violence of the police.

squarely where it belonged. Anyone with any involvement whatsoever in the miners' strike has no doubt on that score. lone miner from Folkestone was bussed in on Monday, following a meeting at the MacGibbon's house. refused to allow the union to speak to him, and virtually occupied the pit - including the NUM ofsaw unic manacel ponce presence.

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(al Sulalize eves'. He expressed regret Week after week he has appeared in public to This weight to On the first day of annual conference, he was That vote put the record straight and the blame well-organised financed The police aalist une Me consen a done no one. and commited to has master nuder donce current now found that they have 01necessary miners' obstruction, breacn or une Have one mata coo! WHO CREATES the violence in mining areas? For anyone who had any doubt the evidence is now The police are not 'acting to protect the working miners' but to create the violence, with a conscious strategy aimed at branding miners as criminals. Police tactics are illegal and outside any direct Martin Walker and Susan Miller, of Greenwich and Islington Police Committees, have documented the evidence in two pamphlets called 'State of The pamphlets docubroucht horizontalv fron Orgreave — police violence on the picket line

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Intimidation in Kent EVENTS AT Snowdon pit in Kent last week shed new light on the causes of 'picket line violence'. A

Cartoon: THE MINER Siege'. A third comes out soon.