ACTiON miners demo | Socialist Action 1983

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Sunday, 23 March.

Party leaders.

The loudly-proclaimed the dem onstration was that the fight goes on until the Tories pit closure orteralllit abandoned "There is no way that we going to sign agreejobs, Arthur Scargill proThe mines cans rapturous reception. not beaten submission.' Betty Heathfield from Women Against Pit Closure by calling for International Day the focus of massive action in support of the miners Conspicuous by their absence was the central leadership of the TUC. So no assurances Tes would m were plement its own conference decisions and mobilise tota support' for the miners Ron Todd, secretaryelect workers' union instead suggested that the real problem was the failure of rank and file activists to convince people in their workplaces that their jobs too were at stake.' This Dhi. Dalit THE MINERS gave their reply in advance to the vaunted 'surge back to work' engineered by the Tories in a magnificent demonstration through London last An estimated 80,000 miners, women from the mining communities and other supporters marched to Trafalgar Square to hear speeches from miners' leaders and other trade union and Labour shows that the ranks are prepared to act if given a The massive turnout Was achieved despite the sectarian way in which the demonstration was built by the Liaison Committee for the Defence of the Trades Unions Morning Star. It shows the potential mal coula be achieved by a Labour Party-TUC demonstration in support of the miners.

Even a MORI opinion poll conducted for the programme showed that a majority of opinion supported cent for, as opposed to 36 (Forty three per cent against.)

As the pit approaches its first anniversary, the miners still face a gargantuan task. But the core of the miners are still determined to go on. real possibility of fusing with the struggles of other groups of workers as a new pay round is entered upon This theme was taken up by Ken Livingstone who called on Labour councils "to open up second front against the Tories' when they meet on 7 March.

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