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And TUC leaders-ominously silent about the Iranian events-have it in their power to ensure that such blacking action is imposed.

Labour left' MPs who produce ringing speeches on the evils of the Shah's regime, and even denounce David Owen's craven support, could spearhead such a fight, and link it to a fight to remove Owen and the whole pro-imperialist Callaghan-Healey leadership.

Trade union branches and Labour Parties must insist that such a fight is taken up.

Already the 5/293 TGWU Branch at Cowley has called on the union's National Executive to press for full scale blacking action.

Call for blacking

But the campaign has hardly started. Why hasn't the Communist Party-which controls the Sheetmatal Workers Union acted?

The call for blacking must ring out loud and clear through. out the workers' movement.

Workers in the arms industry or related industries should set up trade union inquiries to investigate the final use and destination of the lethal equipment they are helping to produce-and call on the rest of the labour movement to assist.

Workers control

Any threat of disciplinary action, use of the Officiai Secrets Act, or redundancies must be fought with the aid of the whole working class.

Such inquiries could also reveal the huge profits made by the arms industry from the mass murder of Iranian, Irish and other oppressed workers.

They would point to the need for workers' control of the export of arms, so that such material aid is directed not to the enemies of the workers' movement but to those forces fighting imperialism in Asia, Africa, the Arab countries and Latin America.

And they would show the necessity for the nationalisation without comporation of the capitalist armaments industry under elected committees of workers' management.

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