German workers: strike to save job

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KRUPP Arbeitnehmer Kampfberent Steel apprentices march through Bochum near Essen which supply materials to the motor industry. With a further 13,000 refusing to cross picket lines, a quarter of all steel workers in the region are now involved.

The employers have carried out their threat to massive governmental crisis, signifying a shift in power from one section of whites to another, then the case might have merited some detailed analysis and reportage.

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But in fact all those involved in the arguments around this minor piece of petty-corruption are united in their defence of capitalism and apartheid in South Africa.

The very capitalist newspapers which are objecting to' Mulder's misappropriation of public funds are themselves financed through the most massive "misappropriation" of all-the super-exploitation of South Africa's black workers who daily lead a desperate existence on starvation wages (if they have a job at all), and who suffer lack of housing and every other sort of deprivation:

REAET kaplalar respond with lockouts, and on Friday another 29,000 workers were barred from work in this way.

Although its main impact will clearly be within manufacturing industry, the strike has already produced effects in other sectors.

While the revelations might upset a section of the white workers whose standard of living the nationalist government is finding even more difficult to defend in the face of a mounting , economic crisis there will be little else of significance to come out of all this.

battles It is the stirrings of the black workers which will bring on any real inner battles with ine capitalist camp and the real issues which will be fougit our there vill be around how Printworkers, who have themselves been involved in major struggles against new technology and redundancies in the last year, took solidarity action in northern Bremen by blacking a fullpage advert placed by the steel industrialists to witchhunt IG-Metall. best to stop the rise of revolution in South Africa.

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The Janata has just won another resoundingly hollow victory. At the parliamentary by-election in northern Samastipur, the ruling coalition beat off a challenge from Gandhi's Congress Party with a majority of more than 27,000 votes. When the Janata first won the seat in 1977. their majority was orer 300,000. For the ingenious bourgeois press of Britain, such a result is a setback-for Gandhi!

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PRESS, Wednesday • Bomb damage in Belfast Dear Editor,

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