Party conference this week.
These resolutions must be supported ference.
NEIL KINNOCK would be ill-advised to give the same speech on the miners' at the Labour Party conference as he gave to the TUC. Acto the Sunday he's likely to be howled down by delegates who will be wanting total support for the NUM's battle to stop pit closures.
The miners' strike has peen ooie dora week government's plan for our industry is clear. They want to close all the pits in the so-called peripheral areas invest in the 'profitable pits can eventually sell these super-pils orr to private in dustry. Their aim is to ravaloe ue coa rulstr in the long run We want an expandin energy policy that does no substitute power or oi tor coal. We wani our industry to expand not Tul down order smash the National Union of Mineworkers. That what we are striking for and we expect the Labour leaders explain our case and defend our struggle. But what is their record on this issue?
The first time Neil Kinnock spoke up publicly in support of the miners was MOVES TO TIGHTEN the knot on the Tory THE MINERS' strike will dominate the Labour There are many emergency resolutions calling on the party to support the miners' struggle, in particular through calling a national Labour Party/TUC demonstration.
We asked NIGEL BEVAN, from Penrhiwceibe NUM, what he wanted to see coming out of con18 weeks into the strike at the Durham miners gala.
Before that Denis Healey and Neil Kinnock had concentrated a lot of energy on attacking, the Tories, but our union for its decision not to cal a ballot.
We've had to listen time and time again to the leader of the party de nouncino the violence of on picket. auers When you're in the front line and the police start kicking your legs other parts of your body deliberately trying what do provoke VOll do? Turn the other cheek? When has the working class ever won anything without having to go out and fight the rul. ing class to get it?
What is needed from this Labour Party CUl" ference • The end equivocation. NUM can't stand around waiting for a Labour government lo come lo power as nilnock advised us at the TUC Congress, The party is supposed lo represent working people and when we take action to defend our jobs in line with trade union and Labour Party policy we need active backing from the party. The Tories have spend billions of taxpayers money on generating eeltacn al elO. mously inflated costs, policing picket lines, losing taxes, losing produc. tion all for the sake of smashing the NUM.
With the Yorkshire NUM threatened with court action, now is the time for the labour movement to give the same kind of attention to the miners back. Now they have got cause.
The only way for working people to win against Thatcher is to be defiant. If that means a strike on this scale, with all the hardship it entails, thel naus AOww2V! to be. Party-TUC demonstratio * НОг in support of the miners! * All unions to implement TUC congress decisions on the miners strike now! * Organise local labour movement conferences to TUSCIN implementing TUC decisions extenulng solidarity with the miners!
* No TUC talks with the government or the NCF on the miners' strike! * Full TUC financial backing for the miners!
* For a 24 hour genera in support of th NUM!
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