load of weeping, Thatcher such Labour leadership. She judged accurately and precisely the miners would never be able to rely on the leaders of the labour movement in the way in which she could totally depend on her forces. A mistress always understands the tricks of her performing seals si Full implementation of TUC decisions on oycott of coal • Total mobilisation of the labour movement ir support of the miners easily and with certainty.
time afterwards. only its beginning.
whining, moaners. No wonder open contempt the The steps to win the strike remain clear and With those steps Thatcher could be deteated is Scargill said the goal must be a TUC, a waged not only in this strike but for a very long.
The fight to deliver victory to the miners is When I consider the leadership of the Labour Party 1 an overcome with feelings of weariness and repulsior....
Be fair, mate! •I think we have a very progressive leadership!
You're insane. oking on aht sic struggle....
IN THE two weeks since Norman Willis's infamous speech at the South Wales miners rally on 13 November, attacking violence', it has become clear that Willis's attack on the miners was no mere flash in the pan. speech won Willis from Margaret Thatcher as a 'very distinguished unionist', was a signal from the centre and right of the TUC that they intended to win back the initiative that 'new realism' had lost at Brighton.
A clear division of labour has developed with Kinnock attacking the miners' on the political front and the TUC right, and Willis, trying to break aull industrial solidarity around the NUM. The basis of the whole operation is to gain a major realist' victory by completely chang'miners The praise Socialist Action 30 November 1984 tain unionism, coalition from the TUC will prove no good defence of the closed shop The most fundamental political challenge facing the unions and the Labour Party over the next 18 months will be ne aerence or lne ponlical levy, and the organised links with the Labour Party. On this front the new realist line is a disaster. The fight for the political levy and the links with Labour need to be tied to policies which offer a way out of the crisis for the working class Hammond and Duffy offer only surrender to the 'reality' of Tory Briand June 1983 showed the futility of this approach For the right wing of course this reality is not a problem. Their policy is precisely one of non-political trade accommodation with the Tories, no-strike deals, and finally a with the SDP/Liberal
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Labour Party, as loyal to our class as Thatcher is to hers. That is a struggle that will have to be