SOCALIST Pay sanctions scrapped NOW SCRAP CALLAGHAN

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demands.

For 9,000 provincial journalists currently On strike for their f20 per week demand; and for tanker drivers and Scottish lorry drivers lining up for strike action in January, the collapse of sanctions must heighten confidence.

It must also spur on the struggle in the huge public sector, where 1.5 million workers have claims outstanding.

But of course this was not the intention of the Tory leaders when they moved their amendment to Skinner the government economic Callaghan-Healey leadership. motion.

'lefts'-Roy Hughes, Ron Shift to Thomas, Syd Bidwell and Eddie Loyden-responded Rather the Tory move to this challenge in any way reflected a shift to the right at all. by a crisis-ridden capitalist class, which, though it wel- than abstain-refusing to comes the efforts by Labour take the step of voting and TUC leaders to cut the against the government. real wages of their members, is unwilling to foot iently trekked back into the additional bills where, such government lobbies to register their vote of confidmeasures fail.

Despite this reactionary ence in the Callaghan leaderelement in the amendment, ship that has pledged its however, it was the clear dedication to the 5% pay obligation of those Labour limits throughout the public MPs who claim to oppose sector, to mass unemploywage controls to vote ment, and to public spendagainst the government on ing cuts.

To defeat this main even from the abstentionists plank of the 5% pay policy was "Bolsover Bolshevik" in this way would have laid Dennis Skinner, elected to a firm basis for an all-out Labour's NEC this summer campaign throughout the as a 'left' , and the other labour movement for the 76 supposed supporters of removal of the right wing the Parliamentary Tribune NUJ pickets