Salute to the Miners!
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With the ending of the Miners’ sirike Irish workers should pause to salute the bravery wed self-ancrifice of the British miners. Their siruggle over the post year hos been on ceomple io os oll. The Tortes have wen a hate for which they have been preporing since Thatcher came to power. It should be clear to all pow that the war bs mdi simply io ireland boi is directed to the crushing of the cnocire British working class as well.
Comparisons with the WH Block siruggle seem opi. The Tories held the line, but af a peice they oeay have been unwilling to pay. The siruggle almost benkrupied their economy and | airipped away many af the myths shout parliamentary democracy and equality before the law thet they uae to maintain working class support for their rule.
The inevitable reeuli of the struggle will be a deepening radivalixathen of those iInvelved, A mew cacreot has formed agabwst the betray al of the TOC leadership. Those in groups wrownd |ocal Labour parties are drawing revolutionary conclusions about Urliish society. The women’s movement has received anew inflox of mtags working clase radicalism.
One clement cf the pew dchaie will be the Irish question, Many British workers have had thelr eyes opened and ate anxious to learn the bessons of cur etroggle. We should show a similar anxiety to undergiand the iessoms of thelr struggle and build o long-lasting eolhdarity with them.
WOMEN’S RIGHTS ihe miners support