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Whichever way you look that does not shrink from even at the struggles and prob- head-on battles with the existlems now facing the - whether these be open right working class worldwide, wingers, 'left' talking Labourites nna thinn etands nut ahnve or Stalinists of the Communist one held last October, and their complete inactivity in fighting for the cutting off of all essential services to the plant is a betrayal and an insult to the courage shown by the strikers.

They have maintained a 24-hour, seven day a week picket on the factory these many months.

Ron Todd, the TGWU National Organiser, was supposed to meet the strike committee last week but up to the present time has made no contact with them.

Duped

This complete disregard for the strikers comes after the TGWU officials Todd, Cairns and Cooper had been duped by Roy Sanderson, the plant's reactionary owner, into lifting the picket, enabling him to display his forlifts at the Smithfield Show.

This was agreed on the purely verbal understanding that Sanderson would negotiate the reinstatement of all the strikers and would also recognise the union.

But after management organised a demonstration by the scabs still working in the plant to oppose the reinstatement of strikers, (an occasion when by some strange 'coincidence TV cameras appeared on the scene), and also a manipulated ballot which also tions and leaving top TGWU officials with egg on their faces.

But even this insult has not drawn any form of positive action from Todd to screw the firm into submission.

In comparison the strikers have remained solid and as determined as ever to see this struggle through to a victorious conclusion.

There is no doubt however, that they are totally disillusioned with the TGWU bureaucracy and it is clear that a further initiative must be taken if the strike is to be won.

The strike committee must surely now draw on the lessons to be learnt from the Grunwick defeat and ensure that they don't finish up the same way.

Mass pickets

They themselves must call for mass pickets to be supported by all the trade union and labour movement.

They must also take up the call advocated by the WSL during the Grunwick dispute for a mass lobby of the TUC demanding the immediate implementation of the blacking of all essential services to Sandersons as the only way the strike can be won. all- the need for a principled leadership capable of leading the struggle for state power and the establishment of a socialist society.

The Workers Socialist League is the only movement in Britain that fights patiently and relentlessly to build such a party, on the basis of the Trotskyist Transitional Programme.

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