SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

COAL MUST MOVE

Socialist Action No. 83, 21 December 1984 · pp. 1-2 of the scan · 146 words

The scan: 083-dec-21-1984-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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of 'total support for the NUM. Following that the TUC voted an explicit policy of non-use of coal and coal substitutes that if implemented What is completely clear today is that the general council is refusing to imworse sure plement these decisions. Instead it is implementing a completely dif- port they ferent policy of refusing to campaign for that 'total support' and after instead attempting to impose conThis policy is even more criminal in that the government is now openly trying to break the NUM. It is en- The couraging, and helping to organise, the breakaway moves in Nottinghamshire. It has organised every legal at- for Even if the TUC's craven plea to reopen negotiations with the NUM met a Margaret members "There will be : no NUM sticks to its proud boast that it has not

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Socialist Action 21 December 1984

← Electoral farce inImplement TUC congress decisions! →

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