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THE Tories think they have got the miners boxed in. Either the momentum of the struggle will be deflected by a national ballot, or massive police operations can keep the impact of the And the Tories have their anti-union laws as They are reckoning without the power of working class The transport unions are committed to boycotting all movement of coal not licensed by the NUM. That is a vital first step. We should demand that the TUC adopts, advocates and fights for this policy throughout industry.

We should argue for railworkers, power workers, gas workers, water workers and others to bring forward and link their claims and strike alongside the miners. We should hit the We should oppose exemptions for steelworkers and argue with steelworkers for a common working class struggle to save jobs in all industries. This is the only way to save steel jobs.

A general strike could stop MacGregor's pit closures plan and rip up the anti-union laws. It can win this struggle. And it can do more. It can make it impossible for the Tories to govern; and the level of mobilisation involved would open up big possibilities beyond that. We should call on the TUC to Local Labour Parties and trade unions have rallied to the miners - sending delegations to picket lines, helping to set up support committees, organising collections, providing accomLabour activists want to know why Neil Kinnock isn't taking a firm stand in support of the miners! And they want to hear him back up Labour's condemnation of the police operations with a clear, bold demand: Police out of the coalfields! Control over the police by elected local committees.

Well-organised miners' pickets at the power stations; depots, and steelworks have to be the sharp end of the struggle To drive them forward, a network of rank-and-file strike committees will be needed, linked up as closely as possible with each other and with the broad support committees being Labour under Kinnock cannot be relied upon to implement the working class policies we need. Nevertheless, the Labour Party is the only conceivable immediate alternative to the Tories now. We must fight for a Labour government.

At the same time we must fight in the labour movement to commit such a Labour government to anti-capitalist measures. That means continuing the battle in the Labour Party for democracy, accountability and for socialist policies - and insisting on rank-and-file self-reliance and commitment to direct action, whatever the Labour leaders do.

The more we can move towards a general strike, the greater the political possibilities from this struggle will become.

Against the rundown of coal, steel and rail jobs, we need a socialist alternative to the vandal Toryism of Mrs Thatcher and *We need a sliding scale of hours. Divide available work *We need a workers' plan for the energy industry, transport and steel. Such a plan would have to be a plan for energy. transport and steel throughout Europe. We need to fight for a *We need training and retraining under workers' control.

*We must open the books of the nationalised industries, expose the profits of the money-lenders and suppliers.

*We must nationalise the banks and financial institutions, and the supply industries without compensation.

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