IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

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Socialist Challenge No. 177, 17 December 1980 · pp. 12-13 of the scan · 641 words

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That, she was sure, would take care of overdue charges for the following year. She would always sure to gel most of her college special ext books reserved for her. She did not like the large amount of overdue charges she had had to pay in the past year.

That Christmas was white After the hullabaloo of the week day was deadly quiet. It gave her the CIS012 was only celebrated in shops. There was so much rushing and hurrying, so much spending and giving, that to Adah, Christmas Eve all the things people rushed to buy the night before become unwanted It ter on Christmas. Day. On Socialist Challenge 17 December 1980 with a bottle of cheap red WilC her Whoopey soon joined them, and a Christmas party was in full swing. More sweets and the children Unfortunately pressca the children. neither the feeders nor the fec knew when to stop.

They all sang carols until they were hoarse. them they sang out of tune but, as Mrs Cox said, would forgive them miserable offenders. assured every one that she still remembered what it used to be like in the churches.

She knew how Christ was born. And she knew what it was all about. She would not say it before the she Whoopey and Adah. ut of tune, but'scarcely cam out at-all . and then drowsily. Christmas itself was as I came, naturally.

arm. was no longer sure she would feel at home places like the Museum or the big libraries where she used to work.

In those Dales laugh was regulated, intellectyal, ou waited for oners to- artificial.

Many of finish what they were saying before you made your own God contribution. You She some it case to and bre was saying, speak, your point. would no be relevant. would have forgotten what you were going anyway children mopped and disinfected her Adan shivered assured going to be a blizzard. More snow fell. and there was hard.

only ly a ghost in the street. The end of another Christmas.

century whether creasingly non-Welsh. population No spontaneiDid the seldom tion? and by You dicalism.

to say there was that The ly starica to Wales experienced the tivity largest influx of immigrants of -South any decade, and these were By 1911 of Wales was ging concentrated in the south. productivity down.

production immigrant workers oring a asunce ponticat trad I am thinking of the The Fed difficult about the influx of Spanish who towards anarchism and syn- coal.

Certainly there were pockets of Spanish workers who tended that. to be atheists and thev influenc chat in The fed we under.

estimate the influx of the non-unionised and non-political. wave encounter produc difficulties because the Wales coalfield has always been difficult. So have more and more people dig more and more coal dividual dụg = had been going each By 1913, when the highest Speak was reached, the seams were getting thinner, the coal was being hauled longer distancês, the rate of profit was falling and the owners proving over such issues working in water, seams petering out, too much stone in the The miners were demanding tion a cut in prices to compensate I0l This late development was occuring at a time when England was passing through the second wave or socials of the 1830s and 1840s.

were through. But liberalism and the consensus society held the fort until 1914 Syndicalism, the workers' •control movement, and industrial unionism saw a role for the trade unions which was more than just an rather as a social institution and beyond that a political instituRemember this was a 'UlC class, one-inaustry area There tin plate workers, SLCCOKES brickworkers transport workers, but they were near v all dependent on the coa industry. There were almost a

page 13 of the scan

militancy took MARCHING MINER-

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