encouraged. United conferences inNo issue has more clearly The begin to develop the FOR THE PAST ten days, the Tory press has led a vicious smear campaign against NUM president Arthur Scargill, in an attempt to divide the union and end the strike.
Despite the initial success in wheeling out Neil Kinnock to condemn the NUM's alleged ties with Libya, the press have failed in their first attempt to split miners weaken support for them in the rest of the labour movement.
The complete cynicism double standards of the Coal Board and Tory government were rapidly exposed by Tony Benn's announcement of the Coal Board's own Libyan connection, following Sunday Times first revelation'. But while the Coal Board's contract with the Libyan governmell been quietly forgotten, the Sunday to sling mud at Scargill.
week the insight team followed up WILI blow-by-blow account Scargill's whereabouts for the past few weeks in a seWhat's this? Oh, joy!! It's yet another little report on what to do with the Irish!! cond to prove 'sinister any problems won't any more.
their lives.
Abbasi ambitrusted' suspected he the KGB or British intelligence.
story the details themselves: exact times, places dates of meetings, many said by A PIECE OFTHE ACTION I simply must get a copy and learn which piece of tinkering they think would make this police state more lovable! cluding details of intelligence officers?
There's cause be suspicious all right But not of Arthur Scargill or NUM. Sunday can't have that!
Times investigation has all the hallmarks of drawing on police and intelligence sources.
In the 1920s the British state had a very active dir And then, of course, the Report will be filed away in this little container!
For even the littlest tinkering would offend the loyalists and we 776 111 But although these reports make very amusing reading they can have a very harm. ful eftect on one's sense of reality....
Socialist Action 9 November 1984
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THE SUNDAY TIMES Fixing the Libya connectior.