final say on all agreements and major decisions. A particularly important role in the coming struggles will be played by the pickets. Last. year two of the most important strikes-the miners strike and the building workers strikewere only won because of the massive use of fying pickets, This year, in the first Chrysler dispute, the company would have castly won without the picketing of the Stoke engine factory by Ryton workers. Another key to winning the coming struggles will be solidarity belween all groups of workers. The most clear cut victories over the government, such as the Freeing of the Five and the closure of Saltley coal depot in tho miners strike, have all been achieved where groups of workers have forged solidarity across union or industrial barriers. But while most workers in strugale turn to other sections of the trade union movement for support, they often over look the fact that there are other potential allies, both inside and outside the working class, who can be drawn into a common The first of these groups are students. Far from being the scabs of the General Strike days, students now almost always side with the working class in struggle, In the miners strike. for example, the NUM executive said that apert from other sections of the trade union movement the most powerful support they had received had been from students. What is more, students are increasingly going into struggle against the govemment themselves. Already this year over 140,000 students have taken part in actions over grants and accommodation. Students must he organised to support workers struggles and the labour movement must take up the demands of students. The struggle against the Housing Finance Act is still going on in many areas, Industrial action can support this fight, but tenants organisations also have a vital role to play in strike struggles. They can house and reinforce picket lines. popularise the demands of the strikes and so on, Joint organisation with tenants groups is un important way of drowing Undoubtedly the greatest poteatial sexince of support, all too often forgotten by the trade union movement, is women-both as workers and as wives of workers. Certainly in the miners' strike wives played an important role, The biggest single danger facing the working class in the coming struggles will be that of individual groups of workers having to face the combined streogth of the ruling class. If we take only those workers who have already started action against the government in one form or another in recent weeks we find miners, firemen, ambulancemen, railwaymen, power engineers, dockers
Red Weekly1973Red Weekly No. 30, 1973
Extend the struggle
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