completely shut down.
'Action in this area is likely to escalate because four or Tinsley's freight trains operated by 15 to 20 train have been LICW shifted to depot which Shirebrook is divided on the movement of coal with loss of work for us.
"Tinsley NUR is demanding that the Federation issue an instruction that these trains should be boycotted and if moved we will take further action.
Members of the Dirty 30 and Warwickshire striking miners were joined at 6 am by the South Notts miners and at 9 am a large delegation arrived Mardi lodge of South Wales — the last pit in the Rhonda Valley.
Throughout the day the picket was never less than strong in 13°C watched over by no less than two police support units and a snowperson with a 'coal not dole' placard.
IN MAY 1983 the Fourth International launched a campaign with the National Union The aim of the campaign was threefold. Firstly to get the truth out to movement about the miners strike through the organisation of speaking tours miners women communities.
Secondly to raise material aid for the strikers through united front initiatives in the trade labour movement.
Thirdly to try and stop all coal bound for Britain through a campaign in each country to win trade unionists support the boycott of coal.
The results of this appeal are testimony to the In West Germany the two million-strong metal workers union IG Metall has opened a fund for the British miners. This followed a donation of 1.3 million DM made by the union to the NUM.
This was in stark contrast to the German miners whose leaders, hostile attitude. The supa took a hostile attitude.
DUIL recleved Greens was reported in SA issue No 84.
The comrades of the GIM (German section of the Fourth international organised two highly sucessful for the LOUS Bold NUM and went onto organise a tour especialiv for two women from the resonance tional solidarity has among the working class today.
tours miners have been following countries: belgium, Wes Germany; Portugal; Switzerland: the Denmark;
Altogether £30,000 was raised through these tours. But most impor tantly these tours have helped stimulate the setting up of united front solidarity committees that have raised large sums of money which have helped to sustain the NUM through through their long battle Kent Women Against Pit Kay closures movenicull. Sutcliffe and Marie Collins and two women trom the Greenham Ilona Aronovsky Leslie Bouton In the Netherlands the FNV, the largest union confederation, established an official Ilas solidarity campaign by had 400,000 guilders (£95,000) in the account.
hundred thousand pounas WOrL of foodstuffs were sent to by the Belgium Socialist Two Wives visited Amsterdam at the request against the Tories stimulated international solidarity action.
of the best exof the Danish section of Fourth which helped establish a through their shop Stewarus organisation which over £100,000.
Here also members of the Fourth were able to sucessfully campaign for the stopping of the movement of coal from the port of Aarhus. • Report reprinted from International Viewpoint Below we publish selection of reports from the journal Viewpoint about tivites of the solidarity movement and the Fourth of the Dutch Women's uLne organisation of the FNV). Workers Party e SS/SAS Belgium the Socialist Belgium section of the organised a tour for the Bold NUM which raised f4,900. Dennis Pennington and Susan Gannon visited Liege, Brussels, Louvain, Ghent, Charleloi and Antwerp.
The section also produced a leaflet calling for workers in the Ghent dockvards stop transport of coal.
In November the NUM won an agreement with the unions in Antwerp that coal would not be exported. In Ireland a campaign in solidarity with the miners is being organised in the North to collect money, food and toys for miners' families at Christmas.
Regular levies take place among members.
NIPSA (Northern Ireland Public Services ASSOC tion) has agreed to match pound for pound the donations made by members from their own pockets.
A support group has been set South wale Several Wales miners have visited the One group of workers at Shannon have managed GAS! their company, to check tributions to the NUM at source.
Many shop stewards have participated in the group band busworkers nave particularly generous. office in LOrk has opened staffed by two South Wales miners.
In Austria Joe Holmes from the Kent NUM spoke to 500 people in Vienna on Postcard produced by the French Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire November: Miners children were invited tc the cised to the ded organised the Falcons, the Catholic workers and trade union left.
The Austrian union confederation, the of Private employees the Engineering, Mining Energy have donated £12,000 between them In France the CGT (Communist federation) has organised an impressive campaign of solidarity with the British miners. In two weeks last year they collected £60,000 and 400 tons of food.
This made up a convoy of 22 lorries, wich strel ched over 1 mile. It arrived at Calais on Saturday October 14 to be recieved by Me Kent NUMes entry Malcolm Pitt, for one section of workers is a victory for the world workers movement!' he said.
At the end of this meeting the French union leader tried to get the 'Marseillaise' sung.
Several workers
stead began singing the In ternationale and Krasuck1, the CT leader, jumped to the microphone taking up their chant.
On Saturday November thousand tons of coal destined to Great Britain were poured into the railways tracks in the marshalling yard at Calais by CGT miners The week before 1,600 tons of coal had been tip ped into the marshalling yardarlier in November Dennis Pennington, Colir Hiscock and Susan Gan non from Bold had spoken with acene me ing the tour organised by Ligue Counste Revolutionaire, (LCR, French section of the Fourth International)
They also visited Lorraine, Lyon and Lille. The tour raised £10,000 with more pledged for Christmas.
In the Spanish state the solidarity campaign been slower starting because of the low standard of living and the setbacks southern European for workers have suffered ovAdrian Piet, earsiorAdrian Pirt, tingham miner toured for the Combate on October 3-6 Rallies were organised by neva Claridad.
with the Left Socialist Co-ordinating Committee the Ezkerra Marxists WATC held in Pamplona, Alava and in the Navarran town of Estella.
In Pamplona Adrian Pirt addressed miners at the Potassa de Navarra food money were collected In Italy, facing similar problems Spain. solidarity is finally getting off the ground. Meeting have been held in factories in Milan Brescia and Mantua.
Lombardy-wide committee representing engineering workers building and textile and vited Alan (Jones South Wales to the region get support. other meetings he address cu lic workers a me All Romeo car factory near Milan.
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