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A demonstration has been called in Nottingham on Saturday April 14, 11am from the Forest, on the ORGA slogans Police out of the coalfields' and 'Support the miners' '. An ad hoc 'Nottingham coordinating committee against the police presence' called the march, but support is expected from the NUM in Yorkshire and maybe wider. Contact: Ivan Wels, 11 Osborne Ave, Sherwood, Nottingham (0602 624827).

No.173 April 5 1984 25p Enforce unions' decisions (Sheffield City NUR)

THE miners are fighting for the life of their industry. They fight for their jobs and for their futuré. Indirectly they are fighting for all of us.

For the first time since the steel strike of 1980, a section of workers with the weight, the muscle, the experience and the will to humble the Tory vandals has gone into a stand-up fight.

They have laid it on the line for Bloody Margaret and for Ian MacGregor, her trained pit-butcher.

MacGregor, the sinister professional industrial thug who rampaged through the steel industry for Thatcher, throwing tens of thousands of workers and their families onto the dole.

MacGregor, the fifth horseman of the Apocalypse, who ruthlessly fought Mrs Thatcher's class war against the steelworkers and without shame, conscience or humanity brought ruin to the steel communities of South Wales, South Yorkshire, and elsewhere.

Now the militant majority of the miners are saying to ThatMOVE cher and MacGregor: No you don't. We've had enough. You are not going to bring destruction, unemployment, poverty and hopelessness to Britain's mining communities.

We can stop you. And if we can't, we'll go down fighting rather than go peacefully and quietly to join the dole queue.

The miners' fight is every worker's fight. For five years we have suffered defeat after defeat. The slump, and rotten leadership, led to setbacks and retreats, which brought depression and even some demoralisation to the movement.

Now the miners have given the signal for an attempt to turn the tide. Listen to the Sunday Times on what's at stake for them. "If Mrs Thatcher loses, she will be left presiding over a country which is not worth governing".

They know that despite the police they can be beaten.

COAL- The Times wrote: "If, for example, the Yorkshire miners, assisted by large numbers of sympathetic trade unionists, decided to besiege the big coal burning powers stations in the Trent Valley and Doncaster area, the backbone of the national Continued back Lea Hall, Staffordshire

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