IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

'The following is there for a general

Socialist Challenge No. 138, 13 March 1980 · pp. 2-3 of the scan · 285 words

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Socialist Challenge in drowned out. attack, then let's attack. 13 March 1980 CRIES of 'general strike' mounted steadily during Len Murray's speech in Trafalgar Square. South Yorkshire miners and striking steelworkers were in especially full voice as the end of the TUC general secretary's speech was What sparked off the anti-Murray chorus was a fiery speech, made without any sound equipment from the back of the square, by Johnny Edwards, father of the chapel at Dickenson's in Kirby. Johnny won the ear of all those around him as he persistently challenged Murray's weak-kneed speech.

Later he told Socialist Challenge why he spoke out: 'I stood up there for all the people who'd come down on the demonstration. They turned up in their tens of thousands. We want to have a real go at Thatcher. If we're going to 'But people like Murray aren't being nearly forceful enough. I work in Kirby. It's being decimated. But we don't want funeral marches. We want to do a 1974 jeb when we kicked out Heath. The problem is that Murray's got no intention of calling & general strike. But the following's there.

'I was speaking to show that we didn't come to hear the things that Murray had to say. We've got to build real action.'

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