year. It will be the march through the Welsh mining valleys since the '30s. It will be calling upon the organise united action to stop closures nd redundancies.
Already the march has the support of the South Wales executive committee of the National Union of Miners. the Port Talbot joint committee and Alan Fisher, secretary of the National Union of Pablic Employees.
'No Return to the '30s' has a real meaning for young school-leavers towns Talbot, Newport and Pontypridd.
week's Economist very clearly explained how the ruline class sees the devastation of as a result of closures redundancies:
*When region, includes most the nation, is hit at once by cyclical and structural economic disaster, there is nothing to do but hand out some cash and hope it stays alive.
The cash The moaning about amounts to just £48m - barely enough to cover the dole money for the 32,000 men and wolen will signing on if the redundancies in steel, mines and rail go through.
But the youth marching from Port Talbot to the Wales TUC in Cardiff will be explaining that The Economist gets it wrong. There is an alternative perspective Wales 'stays alive'.
This alternative is seen in the kind first such Wales TUC to steel strike general workers and like Port of The and which also people of. a Economist: is 60,000 already national, youth. can make. sure
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of united strike action which first emerged in Wales at the beginning of This is not an end in itself, but is a decisive first step in forcing joint action against redundancies and closures.
Trade union leaders speaking at policies They are now being asked to recognise that this is the very reason why youth have a big fole to... play in the fight to defend jobs.
United action in South Wales can defend jobs. But to be successtul it also means buildingla movement that can throw out those leaders of the ISTC who sell jobs to stop strikes.
will be launching the by the trade stopping
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