£150,000 for the 'IT'S NEVER been this easy to collect money for any other cause,' said Swedish struction worker who has been collecting money for British miners every week since the beginning of August.
All over the country branches, political organisations and solidarity committees are engaged in different forms WOrK Gruvarbetarforbundet (National Unior Mineworkers) has launched a campain with lists going around most mines. NUM from Sweden So more than £150,000 has been paid to the solidarity fund of the Swedish NUM, that has been transferred to the British miners.
in Maimranen, a mining area in the far north, miners $23,000 from a strike fund Whal was sel up during une 1969 miners' strike in the The decision was made The four in charge of ad at a administering the fund spoke against the decision: They were immediately sacked dune commitee miners in of the replace them.
and Margeret Thatcher.
Scared of the electoral and political successes of Sinn Fein, FitzGerald has been working through the New Ireland Forum to try to get a southern government involvement in the six county north of Ireland state. Thatcher turned him down flat - creating an immediate political crisis for the Dublin government.
To help understand the background to the blow up, Socialist Action is printing large parts of GERRY ADAMS' remarkable presidential address to this year's Sinn Fein Ard Fheis. MARTIN COLLINS looks at the crisis in relations between the IRELAND HIT the headlines of the British press spectacularly last week with the blazing row following the summit between Dublin premier Garret FitzGerald