SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

The scabs have nothing to offer

Socialist Action No. 74, 26 October 1984 · p. 3 of the scan · 330 words

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I was told to pick up the lorry at 10pm then 'you're on your own'. I was fizzing by this time, and then he said. 'It won't take all night because I know you've get some sleep before you go aown the pit.

Our trouble in Leicester that we're spread out, some of us live 20 miles apart, so they try to pick us off one by one. But we are not going to be broken by them No surrender! Victory to the miners. build our own organisations, from the support was all planned back in 1975. Brian Todd, Nottingham striking miners I'M FROM Nottingham, the home of working miners, of Silver Birch, and scabs.

In Nottingham we were faced with having to because the scabs who took over the union sacked all the union otficials that went on strike, including myself. They saw the future being led by working miners.

The lesson of this is that we may be a minority now, but when we win - and we will win - they will think again and have us back as their leaders because the scabs have nothing to offer them.

We have a struggle on our hands. We can't even touch our area funds. All our support come groups here and abroad.

Without that we'd be starved into the ground.

I want to say something about Margaret Thatcher, because she's not the only one to blame. This Who brought MacGregor into the country? It wasn't Thatcher, varlev did. Thev out him in BL. then moved him to steel, and now he's with the NCB. But it didn't work. It won't work. We are going to win I think we all saw Margaret Thatcher with a tear in her eye when that big daft fool of a son of hers got lost in the desert. Well, we should all be determined to see her cry again when we march past 10 Downing Street on that victory parade

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