Key sistently which now, support of the miners.
tion. has been for is insane. week away cannot be built for, but it only three days before Christmas.
national Party/TUC demonstration must be set for the end of January. Then it can be built for in a truly gigantic way.
• A national solidarity conference called by NUM. . There is enormous support for the NUM throughout the movement. This has to be organised. The TUC Congress was gree regional NUM rallies The logical extension of this is precisesolidarity conference called by the then the recal of the Con gress But has t reaso nouncing Willi other straints. But does have to be is the practical that : of the mov Local These steps counterposed to the industrial solidarity which is necessary for victory. The most urgent task to win the strike is the fight for im. plementation TUC Congress decisions on the power But the strike is also going to be won or lost on the political terrain - and it is here the momentum ior • industrial support can be generated.
The NUM built itself a strong position during the summer to confront TUC and Labour leadership. Now, having essentially defeated the "back to work onslaught, the NUM has to cash these gains by turning into the labour movement with the practical steps which gain victor a victory which will only be achieved by squeezing not only Thatcher but Willis; Kinnock, and Basnett.
Socialist Action 14 December 1984