this government.
the centenary of the birth of Willie Gallacher, Scargill said, ourselves to a campaign of mass opposition cluding extra-parliamentary action government.
He continued, could provide the turning point in British politics.
and elect a Labour government pledged to socialism.
many of the present labour leadership were not.
in Poland. He remarked, British trade union movement.
emergency had been leader elect of the British miners.
ing? ARTHUR SCARGILL has made his first major speech since his landslide victory in the miners' presidential elec. tion. In it he argued that only complete rejection by Bri tain's 230,000 miners of the National Coal Board's pay offer would show that British miners had had enough of He was speaking to a packed meeting at Lochgelly in Fife, organised by the Scottish area of the NUM io mark the cantankerous communist MP for West Fife from 1935-1950.
I believe that my election last week and the decision of the NUM to consult their membership marks the start of a new campaign of mass opposition against Tory government policy. We must all of us pledge yes, Tory 'The scenario facing British working people in the closing months of 1981 is the most optimistic in the history of the socialist movement. The year ahead 1982 will mark the start of a campaign to get rid of the Tories Peter Tatchell's only crime, as far as he could see it, was that he was in favour of a socialist Britain, while Scargill gave an ambiguous comment on the situation It is ironic that at a time when the Tory press are singing the praises of the Polish working class, here in Britain they are loudly hailing the introduction of legislation aimed at the emasculation of the Surely on 13 December, nine hours after the state of declared ir the Polish workers deserved a rousing call of solidarity from the Or did the celebration of the centenary of such a well worn Stalinist as Gallacher preclude the mention of inter. manna sonary primary commune tarly gamer