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Miners, Glasgow show that... WE ARE MANY, FEW"

Socialist Challenge No. 186, 26 February 1981 · p. 1 of the scan · 311 words

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flict with the miners. Back-tracking on all their previous they have been forced to submit to the miners' demands to in the coalfields there was dous determination to batter the Tories and in the face of the threat of an miners' the Tories realised that the their adTULUTE was at staKe.

There is no doubt that national miners' strike had place it wouid have received massive working CaSS support.

The huge turnout and militancy of last 75,000strong demonstration Glasgow showed the potential for a sustained onslaught against the government.

was a stinging rebuff to the socia policies, at a stroke keep all the pits democratic' Gang of Four and their gaggle of right-wing splitters.

Now these giant gains must built The waterworkers who want living and the railworkers who call for investment in their industry to save jobs and provide a decent service should ram home their demands. Power The miners have can be ocaten. and both the water and rai workers have the the power -LO TOrGE Tories to retreat.

The mass protests against unemployment have to tinue. Friday May the unemployTeNE MarGr trom Liverpool arrives in London on its way to The and rade unIon leaders should call for London s Unem ployment demonstraton to be on that ddy Since the demonstraFriday, the Labour Party must call or a one-day strike.

Hundreds of thou sands can be brought onto the streets to put the Tories under seige.

Michael Foot said it all when commented Glasgow rally: 'We are many, they are few He also told ployed people to 'rise forces are there, ready like lions'. The and willing to do just that. But they need to A be given a lead.

Michael Foot should declare his support for all those taking against Tory policies.

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PULVERISED! That's the state Tory government after last week's con-

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