ACTION SoCiAlist Norman Willis at the miners' rally in Aberavon, expressed the hatred felt worker towards the labour establishment.
middle of the most difficult fortnight of the whole dispute.
In his speech he spent sentence on police on miners' He used the violence on the picket lines as an excuse for the TUC's pathetic the court and police attacks on ment of further coactical SNOONL histeau nie col plained: 'Delivering effeclive 211ll have suffered eight monHis most militant comment was that there needed to be 'a surge back to knowledge that the NCB negotiations until the NUM agrees, advance, to shift its posiThe speed with which the right wing moved in to attack the NUM after the makes it cleal that Willis went to South Wales as the their messenger. The TUC right, supported by Kinnock, are attempting class conscious to back out of the commitments given conKinnock's statement of support for Willis. Hattersley's call on the NUM consult the membership, were deliberate at the force the work moves. Tuffin Managers has policy Brighton.
the demn prominent TUC make TUC antiNUM allfinished — and went on The wing back. This means despite the reauers to be Arthur Scargill's ment lo despite leadership. The united the to act -sucn as una mean the ment. the TUC. Shouts of 'we labour movement - both the Labour Party and the TUC.
Leaders like Willis are threat to the whole movement. They regard struggle The something to be avoided Willis is typical of the breed. He has never led organised or participated in a struggle in his life. He started career as T.G.W.U. messenger boy good training for his present job became a research officer, assistant Jack Jones (where he didn't learn much then to Len Murray (where he learnt a lot) and now he's 'leader' million trade unionists.
Scargill The with Scargill's hardly be He started a ar working miner the Miners WEI. through the strikes 1969, mass '74 right wing.
The labour movement needs the kind of class struggle leadership that the miners have got. Such a leadershin will only be won through the most bitter will not be quick. nored by the press, was wing of bureaucracy has the 15 to working But that minority in its ranks women : conscious of the Fight The can begin HUW. of the Any the met by a for a The labou the repudiating elections. must be The labour movement has to fight for a Labour Partv government, as loyal to our class Thatcher is to hers. A TUC as loyal to the NUM as the CBI is to the • NCB. by the press about the
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Willis's speech was a deliberate provocation. His aim was to attack and demoralise the miners in the
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