SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Establishment in a panic

· Socialist Action No. 72, 5 October 1984 · p. 1 of the scan · 230 words

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shows dissimilar the same time. Writ day picket brought THE WRIT Scargill that the state beginning to panic. The important thing now is the trade union response.

In 1972 the Pentonville Five dockers were jailed for contempt of court in not circumstances.

The TUC threatened a one day general strike and that got the dockers out, putting Industrial Relations Act into cold storage at the The writ served yesterwill put the TUC recommendations of support seriously to the test.

The establishment's panic has been building up recently. Thatcher visited the Yorkshire police and told them that they had to get scabs through the lines; judges were back from holiday over the summer to deal with miners' the Home Secretary made savage references to life imprisonment for miners fighting for the right to work. All of the upper echelons are panicking they see coal stocks diminishing as winter approaches. Lied Thatcher lied Over the Bel grano. the nation knows it. Soon the people will know the ful catalogue of lie which have been told over coal stocks. Thatcher wouldn't know truth if it was sprayed onto her eyeballs. There is no other way now to defeat the establishment on the rampage than the TUC calling a general strike it NUM tunds are se questrated or their leaders are thrown into jail.

(Reprinted from the ference issue of Labour Briefing).

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