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tended to regard got to be support groups ference have carried out.
constituency groups, terests of working people.
steps blacks, are under similar attack. AT THE Mineworkers Defence Campaign conference in London 2 December Tony Benn made a major speech not only dealing with the miners' strike but on its rebuilding the Labour movement. Because that section of his speech dealt with magistrates key questions of socialist strategy under debate on the left we are TAM absolutely confident that the organisation that the NUM, the women's support groups, and other groups represented at the defend conference today have been able generations to achieve is going to transtorm Because I'll tell you something come to light in the course of the last nine months.
end of electoral demands.
The idea that all you've got to do is to be quiet, then canvass for then when he or she gets into power be an wait for five years, be loyal to everything that's done, and then turn out again. That is not a way They filiated to The electoral politics that we as being the nature of the Labour Party has replaced supplemented by the sort of action that the miners and the women's this conI believe that what has hap- the pened over the last nine months, apart from educating people, has business been to establish in every single miners' groups, women's action groups, that have no intention whatever of disbanding when the strike is over and are instruments ready and able to support any issue that is in the inThis means defending trade unionists, miners defending women, defending the defending the Irish who What we are witnessing now is a redrawing of the political map of Britain. We are seeing now the true nature of Tory institutions.
The idea that the BBC is impartial, that the judges are free from political pressure that the just decent citizens doing their job without fear or favour, that the police are above politics, we are seeing all that being exposed.
But we're seeing something else as well. That if we're going to rights won by earlier of people we've got to fight as hard to retain them as they fought to win them.
we've got to harness the energy and commitment released by the miners strike to make fresh What we are seeing now is the rebirth of the labour and trade union movement in its new form. If the Labour Party had a founding conference now, as in 1918, we know that all the groups that are represented here would be at that conference The women's sections would auto tous group affiliated, so would the black sec. tions and a whole range of others would all be properly af the because a Labour Party that has to do its job has got to be comprehensive in character. It's got to be a party fit and appropriate for the magnitude of the struggle that faces us and truly representative of all the interests and problems that confront working people in Wage high technology, nuclear weapons, multinational multinational finance. It's got to be an international movement as well.
I believe that 1984 will be remembered as an historic year for us. At the very moment when we were called upon to fight for the rights which we have enjoyed because of the struggles of the earlier generations the miners, the wIves, and their communities have risen to the occasion and given us the lead that we need for that victory.
Socialist Action 7 December 1984