IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

Determined struggle

Red Weekly No. 23, 19 October 1973 · p. 4 of the scan · 237 words

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coming up in the months ahead, The miners have shown what even 200,000 workers can achieve in a really determined struggle. Six million could smash right through Phase 3. Certainly the employers and the state are beefing up their preparations for resistance to Phase 3-by preparing special police anti-picket and anti-strike squads, by preparing employers" strike funds and so on —but they are still too weak to smash any really determined working dass struggles. The speed with which the government moved to release the Pentonville Five last summer shows this conclusively. In addition, the ruling class is deeply divided within itself, with sections turning from support of the traditional ruling class party, the Tories, to support for the Liberals. Furthermore almost all the groups which in past periods of social crisis, have supported the ruling class-for example students now have their own grievances against the capitalist system and could be won to the side of the working class. My time in the plat Preded he strate it mutates lot victory are beller than at carried through in a determined way there is no unconquerable obstacle which the ruling class can put in the way of the working class, If the working class is defeated it will mainly be due not to anything the Tories or the employers do, but to false policies within the working class movement.

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