The miners | Socialist Action 1983

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stations is beginning to bite.

But now is the time the rest of labour movement must come to the support of the NUM. The miners need political and material solidarity like never before.

Every Labour MP, every Labour Party leader, every Labour Party branch, every trade union, every trade union leader, needs to be on the picket line this week. The Labour Party urgently needs to call a national demonstration of support — the TUC to announce it will permit no movement of coal from the pitheads.

A national day of industrial action is needed in support of the NUM regionally and nationally.

As the NUM gets through the next difficult weeks its ability to win will again dominate the situation. When the back to work movement doesn't deliver the goods the initiative will pass back to the miners. But now is the moment everything must be put in the balance on the miners side.

Whatever you have been doing for the miners in the last months whether it's blockading coal, demonstrating, picketing, collecting money - redouble it today. The entire labour movement must adopt one single slogan DON'T LET THE MINERS FIGHT ALONE!

DON'T LET THEM FIGHT ALONE

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Socialist Action 16 November 1984 ACTiON Socialist