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AS WE go to press, Coal Board boss Ian MacGregor has obtained a High Court injunction against the National Union of Mineworkers to stop But flying pickets are moving across the country with great success.

Some three-quarters of the country's miners are estimated to be out -Be miners are clearly moving towards a national strike agianst the round the miners, ready to take solidarity action, then it could be as of pit closures and 21,000 job cuts over the next year. e National Union of Railwaymen executive has said that rail- struggles were in 1972. ts should refuse to cross miners' picket lines, and the TGWU has.

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Organise for a Second, solidarity from other workers. There are :

Rail workers and road haulage drivers must refuse to coal. Other workers must join the miners in pickets at All such action breaks the Tory anti-union laws. And thus it makes this not just an industrial battle, but a political confrontation between the trade unions and the government.

During the NGA Warrington dispute Socialist Organiser called for a one-day general strike as a first step towards indefinite general strike action. Over GCHQ, again, we called for a one-day general strike, and in fact the TUC did give some feeble signals for workers across the country to strike for half The slowly reviving confidence of the labour movement, on the one hand, and the increased aggressiveness of the bosses and the Tories, on the other, make the general strike weapon more and more relevant. Not just one-day actions to rally our We need to start thinking about it and discussing it.

A general strike could stop MacGregor's pit closures And it can do more. It can make it impossible for the no.170