established at Labour Party conference in October last year, had a massive potential to boost solidarity with the miners struggle.
Benn, Jimmy Knapp showed that powerful constructed that could aid the consolidation of a national solidarity movement.
inside the commitee about how to go forward.
those links. One was away from it.
going away from those links into a left ghetto. Valeri Coultas reports.
TO UNDERSTAND what happened last weekend in Sheffield it is necessary to know orenaion had been fought for up to ilal conterence.
BLACK DRAGON issue 4 spells out the Chartist Tendency's views what the committee should become.
'We see ourselves as having pertotl the functions of an alternative Chris Knight on the page 8 of the ouue dun In the editorial he suggest that the MWDC 10L only can but already has organised a general strike.
'We know for certain that we have collected enough ollclalbacklng unions with weight ucuvel Wllassive hour General on February 11. Through actions in key sectors we can Dnne mucu or uic counll. to a halt' (!) and Ken being Since that time two lines have been clashing One was towards the labour left to consolidate The conference in Sheffield revealed the MWDC forward by Socialist Action.
It was to build on the gains of To SCC the committee for what it actually was not an alterhaive TUC coordination of the solidariLy movemn olen aoe alliance primarily with the Labour left and the NUM.
This involved playing down the rhetoric and consolidating the alliances the Comlinllicc Coulu nuake around practical tasks ıke a national demonstration.
But so concerned were the Chartist Tendency to use the committee plattorm for their confused politics that the calllc lu AC mccue between the Liason Committee, the South East Region TUC, the Campaign Group, the MWDC on Tuesday January these leftist declarations were able to be used by the stalinists to stop a united oDichI deliver Througt th N.C.B.:
Al LAS DaTICUaT Sade of the strike a recall TUC SunEKeIY will more than the NUM gained in September.
general is therefore not posed and neither therefore the transformation of the solidarity committees into councils of action The way forward for the solidarity movement was always through a practical orientation based on fighting the Tories be it the auralce LEUSC NUM in the coalfields oi 'RS' DEFENCE COMMITTEE
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Assembling a platform of Arthur Scargill, Tony Livingstone,
EVERY NEGOTIATING SESSION WITH THE N.C.B. MUST BE MATCHED WITH A SIMULTANEOUS PARALLEL SESSION WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF TRADE UNION AND LABOUR ORGANISATIONS WHO CAN DELIVER A GENERAL STRIKE IN THE EVENT nE.THF GOVERNMENT OVERPLAYING ITS HAND