ALL OUT FOR VICTORY!
Whitehall majority that oppose them protested!
the document being secret in the first place wanted secret ment must act. THE JUDGE sentencing Sarah Tisdall to six months in jail gave three reasons for his harshness.
First, her action had undermined confidentialiHeseltine. Second, it undermined our allies con- words, it upset fidence in our security - that means it upset the USA. Finally, it increased the likelihood of a clash between anti-missile demonstrators and the police. The Cruise arrival date had to be secret in case the None of them really very acceptable reasons for Sarah Tisdall is an unlikely hero of the peace movement - a career civil servant, and not opposed to nuclear missiles. But hero she is, because she had the courage to make public what Heseltine Greenham women at her trial gave flowers to 'Sister Sarah'. But the most meaningful gift is for the peace movement to put massive energies into the campaign for her release. Press statements are not enough, protest actions should be organised up and down the country. CND and the labour move Inside: Why the Guardian copped out. p 6 & 7.
'ROUND One to the miners' has to be the assesment of the first three weeks of this struggle. All the Lancashire pits are closed, and the pressure is increasing in the Nottingham and South Derby areas.
The efforts of the Tories and the NCB to break the strike by exploiting divisions in the NUM have failed, through the determination of the miners from Yorkshire, South Wales, Kent and Scotland.
But the Tory government and NCB aren't the only problems facing the The right-wing in the TUC are likely to fall bosses press campaign ballot. The left must bury this campaign.
Mick McGahey explained clearly, all those calling for national ballot today are in reality calling for an end to the dispute.
The campaign for a national ballot is designed to play on the divisions between high and low pay areas, secure and threatenWorkers' pits. democracy is not simply a question of vole, but tne nignt to torm pickets, the right to argue will colleagues who still duct and heiggle The struggle. The miners in the threatened pits were correct to strike and correct to ask then colleagues support them.
No government would all a general election i he middle of a war. It's hypocrisy for the Tories to demand the NUM should hold a ballot in the middle of ItS most important struggle since 1926 The miners Nottingham by working. falling into the trap laid by the NCB and the Tories. If the NUM is defeated they will suffer 100. The strikers are acting in the interests of all miners the working class.
In the next days miners will be increasingly turning movement of coal to the stations. The first victory has already come Scunthorpe where British Steel production is down by a half. And coal stocks at power stations al c much lower than government claims.
To prevent this and to move towards victory, the miners need the biggest DOSSIDIC Callbaleil solidarity.
This means demanding the TUC names the day for national support action. It measlesus support committees likeManchester and other areas have done. It means meeting any attempt to use the law, with the united action of the entire move ment.
The miners are acting in the interests of the entire working They deserve the support or unc entire movement. Over 5,000 miners mourned their dead comrade David KEN CAPSTICK, Yorkshire Area Council
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