back the attacks of the state on our picket lines protest alone will not give us the facilities we need to carry on the class struggle in our own interests. After all, what has been the response so far of the state authorities to our actions? A massive display of polics force combined with a contemptible sneer from the the judge about rentacrowd". lesson is clear. We will not affect what goes on inside the courtroom at Shrewsbury until we can gather. outside in sufficient force that our shouts drown out the mutterings of senile magistrates and shake the building to its very foundations.
This is the task we must take up. Our watchword should be: - A Day of Explanation - A Day of Agitation.
We must act on this day to prepare for the mobilisation of big sections of the class on the question of the 24 in the near future. We must make FIGHTING sure that as many workers as possible are aware of the existence of the Shrewsbury 24; we must explain the significance of this trial, we must agitate among the mass of workers on the need for them to take up this cause in the interests of the entire working class movement.
Insteed of assembling our limited forces outside the Shrewsbury courthouse, our first priority on 15 June should be to send those forces out to the sites, factories, offices, shopping districts and housing estates to agitate about the Shrewsbury 24.
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