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From Militant, No. 696, 20 April 1984, p. 12.
Transcribed by Iain Dalton.
Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL).
Dear Comrades,
I am on strike to safeguard jobs and to win a future for our industry. This is a fight for the youth who are the future of this industry and of this country. It is a fight for the future of an industry that has tremendous prospects.
The coal industry belongs to the people of this country and the jobs within it belong to the youth. We as miners have no right to sell that industry or those jobs down the river. We have no intention of doing so.
Marxism offers hope for the future which as a young miner in the present dispute I identify with fully.
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Yours fraternally |
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