According to the press and to Jim Callaghan, by the women's liberation movement, for example, can provide accommodation and help to co-ordinate local picketing pools;
All student organisations must be placed at the support of the miners and other groups in struggle as well as launching an all-out fight for Parliament and the rule of law.
flow from this are very clear:
intensified at this time;
strations, strikes, and so on. campaign. political backwardness and reformism of the working class leadership in general to try to achieve by the ballot box what the Tories cannot achieve in the open field of class struggle.
The aim would be to defeat the industriol power of the working class by a pobtical offensive. A general election would be designed to atomise the working class and to attempt to convince them that the solution to their problems lies not through struggle but through This is the main fact which revolutionaries must explain in any election. The tasks which To oppose all moves to call off struggies during the election period. Struggles must be To intervene in the campaign in such a way as to break down the attempt to atomise the working class. This means by organising demonOf course, in any election called now socialists must argue for a vote for the Labour Parly where there is no revolutionary alternative. The victory of the Tories would be seen by the working class as a setback and would decrease confidence and combativity. A victory for Labour would have the opposite effect.
However, the main aim of any campaign nust be to stress that the electoral game will not decide anything in itself. That Labour or any government based on the Parliamentary machine cannot be trusted and that all struggles must be continued to achieve their goals regardless of what government i elected. The slogan *Vote Labour but rely only on your own struggles must be the key one for any election The most important lesson of the 1972 miners' strike and what has happened since is that never again must the Tories be left in office to pull capitalism's chestnuts out of the fire if the employers suffer a defeat in the sinke. Teachers from more than 20 schools gathered on Monday to denounce their union leadership kill. A general strike can achieve far more than just chaning i government but at the very minimum it must set itself the aim of driving the Tones out. Arthur Scarpill, whatever the reformism of the rest of his politics, showed the way here when he openly called for a eneral strike. He said: "I call on the whole of the trade union movement for a general strike. If we have to strike the whole 10 million workers in the TUC should give full support by joicing in a general strike.
He is absolutely right. But it must be a general strike to bring down the Tory government. Only this can once and for all stop the Tories in their attacks and manoeuvres and can open the way for socialism.
Arthur Scargill was also right when he said: If the TUC give the call for action it can be carried through at a moments notice. Every militant must fight for the recall of the TUC precisely to organise such a strike. But this must not be waited for As with the freeing of the Penconville Five and with Saltley, the most effective action-and the one that in any case stands the best chance of getting the trade union Jeadership to act-is immediate action. Apart from joint struggles for claims, any big local working class strike action in the coming period can lead towards a general strike. The slogan is ahove all the one that must echo through the working class movement in the weeks to come. ine way to a renewed offensive by all workers
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From a miners' strike to a general strike to bring down the Tory