Yorkshire, Notts and Kent came to Communities Miners' Support Group.
The carnival committee donated two stalls and the AInc Committee shared part of Inel stall help the miners and miners wives sell material for the campaign In addition, the Lord Eric band shared its float with the miners draped with banners made by the Black Delegation.
The visit helped to develop bet. ween the black and mining communities during the miners when the Black Delegation SCul OVER THE bank-holiday weekend, miners from participate in London's Notting Hill Carnival to build support for jailed and sacked miners. Like last year, the visit was organised by the Black Delegation to the Mining and the Kensington Chelsea groups of black people to mining areas joined picket lines, and spoke at meetings.
This unity was manifested again when the miners received a warm the carnival. Support for the victimised miners continues - a suostantial amount ol many was colleted and Canal WOLC Black Delegation sticker *Black people support the Miners' Our struggles continue.
The reception that the miners received was all the more enthusiastic when people realised they were donating one-quarter their collection to the black miners in South Africa.
As usual police picked out the miners tor specia treatment. Threatening to suppoiler. who displayed miners' banners they harassed collectors then took the unprecedented of throwing the followers of the miners' float out of the procession Notting Hill showed yet again the importance of the unity in action between the exploited and op pressed, nationally and in. ternationally.
AN PHOBLACHT, the weekly paper supported by Sinn Fein, in its 8 August issue carried a major interview with GERRY ADAMS. The president of Sinn Fein outlined the situation of that following the recent local elections in the north and south of Ireland.
the interview.
What is your assessment of • 1E election results North and South?
As far as Sinn Fein is Concericu ourselves objectives for organisation Socialist Action is printing major extracts from We suffer the twenty-six perceived SecSocialist Action 6 September 1985 organisation then question will be answered but certainly anyone who takes seriously the ques tion of Irish independenc must conclude that afte aheer the last is years of ine last two the SDLP, CORALE and they must start looking at the alternative.
In the twenty-six counties where will Sinn Fein get its voter support?
Obviously, the policies which we are pursuing are socialist republican policies — I use the words socialist republican simply to mark tne anierence Del ween our republicanism
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tionalism is not the way to freedom,