custody: the NRC to the poinHome Tories presumably receives in- The SUCHORS Ridiev 1978 prepared the coming So what Martin: has you draw? learned Northern central duties sci valllo.
OI state. The but use of police acting force, ton the use note edi dansed forces lne use of horses dogs police LI all-i ing. of people under law the labour public order movement do!
Martin: The build up of a surrections. military police orable, because it's part of Sue: It's order policing. capitalist state. At LN C but many salic unlie. unc labour movement has got others did. they to realise what is going on, and take quite a different attitude their conflicts being TOE will castal They've got to undersbreaking.
Martin: throws into dustrial tand them not lust as disputes for JIlquestion the whole economistic demands, but as an almost military conthought police flict with the state ficers acling they've got to be prenared and organised for that.
the police station, the The leadership of the TUC magistrates have done a great disservice to the this respect. They have openly deplored violence in an abstract sense, without pointing out that the state is to blame. Neil Kinnock has, in effect, sided with the Tory Party and the capitalist class by saying pickets cause violence.
Martin: The Labour Party is in a ditticult nosition It's part of the parliamenlal y sysicill, reason has always taken a bipartisan view of the police. NOT just over the miners but on questions like the Kinnock has said the Labour Party has fundamentally the same view as the Tories; both want to reorganise the coal fields so that capital survives and profits are kept up. Sue: In the first weeks of very little. speak, stance.
violence violence.
agitators different. the Neil said of the But about that? 'yes I conBut Kinlook The use that's quite the doesn't leaders.
be done Martin: Anyone on the left has known for years that the dead hand the bureaucracy at the top of the party and the TUC has to be overthrown by the rank and file. They are the people who experience the struggle in the coal fields, the NGA, the women at Barking Hospital, and Hammersmith People are beginning to take a class stand and the bureaucracy.
educating, agitating and organising. Sue: Nothing educates much as being involved in struggle Take the women of the mining community. They say they used to get involved in politics, now they are keeping the strike going. Martin: One of the things to be said is that the increased consciousness the rank and file has a lot pickets the time umm'c We've hac support the wortal they'd for on picket of the NUM, LO GO WItn tanishi Arthur Scargill and Peter Heathfield. There's question that Scargill's never stood down from his basic class position - and he's not going to.
Sue: • Stands doth from never . stands down anything he's mandated to do by the NUM. That always gets missed out The union is the rank and file. They're the one was elected by su Scargill ballot because they Knew he could be relied on to carry out their policies Some people have said our depressing because describes in detail the level of violence brutality to the miners. But want to make it clear that we're not depressed.
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