Monday, 28 August
10:00am - 5:00pm
Venue: Betteshanger Community Park,
Circular Road,
Betteshanger, Nr Deal,
CT14 0LT
10:00am - 5:00pm
Venue: Betteshanger Community Park,
Circular Road,
Betteshanger, Nr Deal,
CT14 0LT
Party Stall & Display - (organised by Kent & Sussex Branch)
Transport provided from Deal town centre - Phone 07971 715569
During the Miners' Strike, the function of The Socialist Party was not to give uninvited advice to the miners fighting over the terms of wage slavery — how the trade union struggle is fought must be decided by those involved, not by preachers from the sidelines. Our role was to ask the question: What is the alternative? While the strike may have challenged the employers inevitably it was on their own ground, namely that of capitalism; no strike can attempt to move the struggle to different ground — a political struggle for socialism. Despite the rhetoric, this was, after all, yet another manifestation of the daily class struggle between worker and capitalists, albeit a particularly long and bitter one. Our purpose was to bring to an end the confusing of a trade union struggle over industrial and economic issues with revolutionary political action.
During the Miners' Strike, the function of The Socialist Party was not to give uninvited advice to the miners fighting over the terms of wage slavery — how the trade union struggle is fought must be decided by those involved, not by preachers from the sidelines. Our role was to ask the question: What is the alternative? While the strike may have challenged the employers inevitably it was on their own ground, namely that of capitalism; no strike can attempt to move the struggle to different ground — a political struggle for socialism. Despite the rhetoric, this was, after all, yet another manifestation of the daily class struggle between worker and capitalists, albeit a particularly long and bitter one. Our purpose was to bring to an end the confusing of a trade union struggle over industrial and economic issues with revolutionary political action.
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