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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 15. July 3 1978

Class Struggle

Class Struggle

The London Times said: "The miners are among the last groups of American workers to view labour relations in the classic terms of class struggle." This newspaper has got it completely the wrong way round!

These miners are among the first groups of American workers to once again move into decisive action in the new period of the world capitalist economic crisis. They will be followed by more and more workers mobilising to defend their living standards and to build their fighting organisations against mounting attacks by the employers and the governments.

These are early signs of the strong winds of mass struggle that are beginning to blow through the capitalist countries, rich and poor alike.

This article is taken from the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) paper "Workers Unity ". The film festival which opened last week at the Paramount is screening a film tonight (Monday July 3) on a 1974 strike in the Kentucky minefields. This strike had many similarities with the one discussed above. The film has been hailed as one of the best films on a strike ever made, and should be well worth viewing.