SocialistAction 1983–88

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

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Socialist Action No. 89, 15 February 1985 · pp. 2-3 of the scan · 255 words

The scan: 089-feb-15-1985-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 2 of the scan

lesson will be of major importance in the coming local government battle. It will also be important in the wage struggles of teachers, local government workers, and others in the coming months.

The number of days lost in strikes, the miners, increased by 30 per cent in 1984, clear proof that the organisations of the working class are still immensely strong. This strength is the bedrock on which the left can build in the next period. Out of the coming struggles the labour movement must forge a leadership which is like that of the NUM stands and fights.

Editor: ALAN FREEMAN Published weekly except two weeks in August and the last week of December.

Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily represent Socialist Action's views. These are expressed in editorials.

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excluding — a leadership which sales Tell me, How do you like my chair? Neat, eh? It's very.

.... unreliable!

One simply never knows if it's going i to provide support or поб.... /It's unreliable and it doesn't

page 3 of the scan

THE ELEVEN months of the miners' strike has produced the most important development in the British since the 1920s. For the first time movement has has British Socialist Action 15 February 1985 to such tee). the Scargill leadership is in advance of overwuelming majority of the working class at this stage, the refusal recognise the real balance of forces in the labour movement,

← That sinking feelingScargill's 'left' →

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