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pickets The arrest of the Shrewsbury workers was a dramatic illustration of the need for such an approach.

The "flying pickets" used by the miners in 1972 won a magnificent victory. The usc of mass and 'flying" pickets became contagious. That summer building workers and dockers took up the use-of the "illegal" mass picket. The ruling class offensive recled back.

The Government met this by the direct use of their legal machine. Pickets were framed up on phoney conspiracy charges, In a whole series of disputes police, backed by the Special Patrol Groups, crashed through and broke up picket lines. The ruling class, preparing for a confrontation with the trade unions, were determined to break the powerTul picketing weapon.

From the very beginning Red Weeki campaigred for a united working class resistance to the Shrewsbury atrests. It explained that only a campaign building directly towards mass, indefinite strike action, could mobilise the forces to. challenge and deleat the capitalist state. It explained that the use of the legal machinery cannot be defeated by appeals to "fair-play" or some mystical sense of "reasonADATA It put forward the need to destroy the respect for capitalist la w witich acts as a brake on the working class. To those who counterposed a policy of 'pressurising the trade union leaders the paper pointed out that only a strongy orga nised grass-foots movement had any hope of making the union leaders act. Red Weekly 1 May 1974 have stressed that integrated into the social and economic crisis is an inevitable and impending mess confrontation berween the cinsses.

General strike It was because of this analysis that the paper made its central campaign around the general strike.

In the last days of 1973 the convergence of the miners', engineers" and railworkers" claims was laying the reul busis for smashing Phase 3. PARES FOR SHOMROM Towards

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