by the end of the year'.
And they castigate the government for "cynically believing that the simple lapse of time between October and July has been enough to turn moral outrage into apathy'.
In fact, miners facing redundancy have been aline but apathetic and they have enjoyed the support of plenty of other people.
At a rally during the North month miners' leader Arthur Scargill called for a 24-hour stoppage against all redundancies -not just those in the pits.
If the TUC's Campaign for Jobs and Recovery is to have any WITHIN MINUTES of the start of the RMT's Annual General Meeting, General Secretary Jimmy Knapp's worst fears were realised: a resolution was allowed calling for Knapp and co. to resign.
A series of debates saw the bureaucracy overturned; on Maastricht: delence cuts and Trident; more power to Trades Councils. On Ireland West Peoples March for Jobs last the AGM backed a policy of disengagement and inclusion Conference voted to discuss and amend recent NEC decisions. A special redundancy agreement for the union's senior officers was thrown out and major finanspecial recall meeting. called to account for not continuing the strikes this year; for agreeing a new machinery for selling out the Manchester Piccadilly guards.
By 71 to 15 the AGM voted that the union should have refused to call of the Manchester strike despite the BR court injunction. It also rejected a right-wing move to call off the BR ballot on pay.
The AGm was an overwhelming success for the left. However while the left is still poorly organised and cannot control the union for the other 51 weeks of the year.
The left Campaign for a Fighting, Democratic Union must address these problems urgently.
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