What we can
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nerve of every waverer in other unions and industries.
But in itself this is insufficient. It would still leave Thatcher and MacGregor there for another round. We have to think not only of deepening and extending the strike but of the future of coal as long as we realise that without the strike, future plans will be utopian schemes.
Nationalisation has failed. The strike illustrates that. MacGregor illustrates that. 1972 and 1974 illustrate that.
Now, a decade atter the miners toppled Heath, the boss class is trying to return the pits to the 1930s.
We must not simply oppose privatisation. We must point to a future where the workers own and control the wealth they produce. WHILE Neil Kinnock dithers, what can your Labour Party or union branch do to help the miners?
*Invite a miner next meeting.
*Run off leaflets ing the struggle.
*Take collections at every workplace to ensure that the issue is raised and to ensure that funds already spent on food, petrol and accommoda. tion are replenished. Make union and party funds available to the NUM.
*Make all Labour Party facilities, rooms, telephones, printing, available to the NUM. Labour councils snoula be urged to place council facilities at the disposal of the *Get your MP to make a statement of support and get to the nearest picket lines.
*Make a list of people who are prepared to picker in consultation with the NUM.
*Build miners support committees involving union branches, stewards' commit. tees, trades councils, GMCs, and Labour councils.
*Arrange accommodation for visiting pickets.
*Write letters to your loca! paper. Try to get somebody on local radio supporting the