THE BACK TO WORK movement in Scotland, never more than a trickle, has now gone into reverse. The number of scabs has been shrinking in the last three weeks from 90 to 63.
One miner, David Brown, strike centre that he was offered a f200 bribe to join a working miners' association.
Despite NCB provocation and intimidation turning off power at pits, sacking NÚM officials, now bribes the solid Scotland.
Earlier In workers were given the opportunity to show their support for the miners by taking solidarity action. Wednesday the TUC called & udy of action, when tens of thousands of workers stopped for the day.
Most major engineering. shipbuilding manufacturing workplaces in Glasgow went on strike, they were joined by rail, hospitals, schools and factories throughout Scotland. Twenty thouhas told Dalkeith Their record in the compares favourably with the inspiring example Scargill. The first test was, and is, Ravenscraig.
The allowed tons week into Not BSC the The decisions, MICK McGAHEY, Scottish NUM leader munist the 'militant trade union' wing of the of the left wing of the and of Arthur Scargill in the NUM, has seen the CPGB consistently outflanked in militancy and left wing politics by strike is таетое callle ample for anyone who has illusions that the Mornin Star represents any type of alternative to Right from the beginning of the strike the Morning Star has been carrying extraordinary line that Neil Kinnock is backing the miners Immediately following the TUC, Communist Party industrial organiser Pete Carter gave his overall assessment of this congress.
Carter claimed, 'The unions emerged more united than for some time. And lney agrced Ur. the need for response to the corpora tions, the state and the Nass media. (Morning Star 19 September). The decion or the YUC on the miners' strike, to the decisions of where there was an open fight WIts extreme right, but to other decisions of the Congress.
Carter in fact talked of, "the atmosphere of mutual confidence flowing from the Brighton discussions This was a renort of of the most bitterly dividDoubts grow over NCB boss Picket-line duties policing to crisis level cut 18 September issue carried the front page lead climbdown on ACAS role.' Apparently the tervention of ACAS into dispute, which designed by the government and right wing of the TUC to attempt to impose sell-out deal on the positive miners, development.
throughout this dispute, it has been the Communist Morning which has formed the right wing of Scargill and its leadership the Labour left which has Dees its core. Despite differences on tactics there has s been no fundamental difference of line between Marxism Today and the Morning Star.
The real course for of CPGB is to leave that Party and join the ranks of the fighting left wing of the There Labul. they'll find of politics that neither Marxism Today or the Morning Star will provide
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movement has been in sharp decline. The rise
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