MINERS' support groups, anti-cuts campaigners, youth, unemployed, trade unionists and strikers will be meeting together at a conference in Manchester on February 27, called around the slogan "unite the struggles".
The conference, called by the Group Network and Parkside women's pit camp. will provide a forum for activists to discuss united action to bring together separate fights, both locally and nationally. be only two opening speakers set the theme, and the meeting will then move straight Into workshops to discuss resolutions After lunch, resolutions passed in workshops will be discussed again, and action to take the movement forward will be agreed. All resolutions should be in the hands of the organisers by February 20.
Socialist Outlook supporters in the North West have helped set up over a third of the 20 or so liSts in existence in the region, with groups now in existence in Liver. pool, Manchester, Lancaster and Morecombe, Preston, Bury, Blackton, Warrington and other places.
The majority of local MSGs came together two months ago to form the North West Miners' Sup. port Group Network, the first of its kind in the country. Network meet. nas are regulary amended by a temporary reprieve for some of the union bureaucrats. The event attracted broad support