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pioneered virtually fight when in 1839 never has, seized Newport over Are these actions to because they were were used against striking manufac turing workers in Newcastle. A hunsixty years later the combination. Acts of 1799 and 1800 were still sentencing to prison anyone forming a trade union.
: Tolpuddle martyrs were transported for forming a union. As late as 1873 gas workers in London were imprisoned for a year for going on strike. In 1972, with the Pentonville Five and in 1984 with the 37 workers imorisoned trom Cammel Laird's, trade unionists are still being Coming to more recent times, and more general laws, the Taff Vale and Osborne judgements in 1900 and 1909 tried firstly to smash the funds of trade unions for going on strike and secondiv to end the right ot trade unions to contribute funds to the Labour Party. Eighty years later the trade unions are once again having to for those rights. Capitalism and never will, change its spots on these questions. Anyone who believes the fight for democracy aloel we can now relax, deluding themselves.
In this entire struggle the unions the labour movement, and political itself have only Deel defended by ordinary people time and time again being prepared to break the law. Furthermore it is not the case that 'the law will have its way - LU quote Neil Kinnock. Historically a whole series of these uniust laws have been smashed — which is why we enjoy most of our rights today. As recently as 1972, over the Pentonville Five and in the miners strikes, the Tories' Industrial Relations Act wa:
pulverised bay il eal aian and the law been the saallt thing Democracy has often had be defended agains law, against the law. It is Arthur Scargill, not Neil Kinnock, who stands in the long line of struggle fo in Britain and inter nationally. Those who accept the law all not democrats but historically have been enemies of democracy The parliamentary armies in the Cromwell, the Levellers, Robespierre, were the actually created pacificist condemning all violence. Not a single one remained within the law. But they all lived at a time when the fight for liberty democracy actually meant something in the mouths of those who uttered was then miserable hypocrisy 'democracy' and 'law' has become in the mouth of a - or a Kinnock Neil Kinnock likes to claim he is a 'democratic socialist'. He is certainl] not a socialist as anyone reading the Party document on the economy will find out. His attitude to the law shows Kinnock is not even a