Our Role
Socialist Press1979 1979-01-24Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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one picket at each restaurant was sufficient.
From then on it became imperative that the Region kill this troublesome strike as soon as possible.
Under Shorter and newly appointed Regional Secretary Staden, they combined a series of secret negotiations with Margolis with attempts to destroy strike committee independence by taking control of all finance and picketing.
Failed
Shorter and Staden failed in their attempt to foist a sell-out on the strike committee.
But on finance they refused to discuss the possibility of a Regional Levy-falsely claiming that it was against the rules.
Workers enter into struggle in order to defend their living standards-not in order to become revolutionaries.
As Grunwick and Sandersons have shown, however, unless such a political development is made, the strike will be forever tied to the bureaucracy, whether that be "left" or right wing.
These strikes show that in the context of capitalism in crisis the bureaucracy is incapable of mobilising the forces needed to win the democratic right of union recognition.
But however great the treachery, workers do not spontaneously break from reformism. They need to be convinced of an alternative programme and a perspective to win.
such a break must be tought for by revolutionaries alongside practical work to strengthen and sustain the day to day struggles of the working class.
We believe the role of the WSL in this strike, both on the picket line, in the unions and in Socialist Press, has been crucial to the development of a principled leadership not simply in the Garners struggle but in the labour movement as a, whole.
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