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Costs 10p: available from Class Fighter, 214 Sickert Court, Essex Road., London N1 2SY. from other workers. The NUR and ASLEF members who have been sent home for refusing to move coal, are a magnificent example for every worker. The seafarers of Denmark and Norway are boycotting coal movements, so there is no excuse for any worker in this country to touch coal.

Extend

The Scottish TUC call for a day of action in solidarity with the miners points to the way to win. It is up to rank and file trade unionists to extend the Scottish day of action (likely to be May 1) to the whole of the country.

Rank and file support committees must take the message into every workplace: don't touch coal, all out with the miners on the day of action and prepare for an all-out general strike.

That kind of solidarity can defeat MacGregor and Thatcher no matter how many police they draft into the coalfields.

Published by the Socialist Organ Registered as a newspaper at the tions of the broad mass of our people, without whose labour by hand and by brain the nation could not continue to exist...

"In pursuing its domestic policy, the government relies on the aid of a Security Service which cynically manipulates the definition of subversion and thus abuses the provisions of its charter so as to investigate and interfere in the activities of legitmate political parties, the trade union movement and other progressive organisations, whose only crime is that they seek to protect and extend the hard-won rights of working people and to strive for peace.

His attempts to pass information to the USSR were motivated by the desire to prevent world war. he hoped to paralyse the war build-up of the US and the UK.

He is right about Mis. Ine treatment of Sarah Tisdall is the latest proof that the secret core of Britain's state operates to keep matters secret from and to spy on the British people much more than any foreign power. illiance, 28 Middle Lane, London A Office. Signed articles do not nece Michael Bettaney seems to. identify the cause of peace and socialism with the USSR, and that is a great mistake. But the British state has no right to take revenge on him.

Bettaney turned against the British state as a result of his inside knowledge of its operations.

According to the Guardian, "In his eight years in the service he became a Marxist intellectual.

"Soon after his initial vetting and training, he went to Northern Ireland where he spent nearly three years at the sharp end of the British role, seeing the province from a point of view which is inaccessible to most people. unfogged by ignorance and unvarnished by the media...

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