the miners" struggle will be a long and bitter one. This will undoubtedly be the case if the rest of the working class stands idly by. But it need not happen if the rest of the working class joins in a combined offensive. This will ensure that the struggle will be won and the Tories defeated swiftly and decisively.
the miners will be shown. This is needed buffit is not enough. All experience shows that massive involvement in a struggle can only be gained when all those involved are aiso fighting for their own demands.
This means that engineering workers must strike for their pay claim; Vauxhall and Ford workers for their recently submitted demands; ASLEF should call a national strike: industrial action should be taken to free the Shrewsbury 3 and stop the trials: power workers should refuse to operate government cuts and impose workers control on the power industry; students should take all-out action to win their grants demands, and so on. If this is done an irresistible weight will be thrown against the employing class and the chances of every section winning will be enormousy increased.
In the case of the engineers, the Manchester convenors meeting should be recalled to take national strike action, and district shop stewards meetings should call regiomal striker. In the case of Fords and Vauxhalls, the shop stewards committees can lead action. All this must, of course, be in addition to full solidarity action their own demands;
Labour Councils and Labour parties must place all their facilities at the support of the