Socialist Action asked Sunderland MP BOB CLAY for his comments following Neil Kinnock's refusal to speak at the five national rallies called by the NUM.
WEEK BY week we are seeing the repressive apparatus of the state used as a naked class instrument against the miners' That's the first thing the especially its leadership, has clearly understand.
The coveruncil prepared to deploy any means whatsoever defeat the NUM. In those circumstances, an opposition that fails to grasp. the nettle without faltering cannot be an effective opposition. We should be supporting the NUM without conditions and without equivocation.
Labour MPs should be on NUM picket lines and NUM public platforms at every possibly opportunity, and statements expressing NUM's - so-called--eontempt of court should be stepped up. There must be massive demonstration that the whole movement has contempt for the Tory courts.
And the Labour Party must take an even bigger to appear on the platform of one of the NUM's five big-city rallies is to be very much regretted. Once azalll he flas shown weakness on the miners' dispute.
I really can't understand the statement that he has no time. He found time, at short notice, to attend Mrs Gandhi's funeral in India, which is purely a ceremonial chat was the funeral of so- matter.
meone who had exercised repression over large sections of her own population and refused to hold democratic elections.
-Why is this more imBob Clay MP portant than speaking NUM rallies? would seem that what the media SoV Kinnock fudging the issue be identified Ielusnet with the strike.
What would the parliamentary leadership say if those Labour MPs from the mining areas who have a day to day commitment to the strike - attending NUM picket lines, taking up Cases of wrongful arrest, doing supportive local radio and press interviews, , and so on announced they didn't have time to attend the Chardon to go trooping charade troopilg through lobbies when the Tories have a built-in maLabour gets to office jority of 140 each time?
The original decision that Kinnock should speak
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lead in raising funds for the stil Kinnock's refusal