Civil Servants step up action
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CPSA and must in parti their leaders a through with The one day token strike call by the Civil Service unions for April 2 brought a devastating response, with at least 400,000 on strike throughout the country.
Having gained some idea of their colossal industrial strength, members of the CPSA and SCPS in particular seem certain to maintain the pressure on their leadership that has already forced them into the front rank of present struggles on pay.
With no concessions on offer from the government over and above the 9% offer and talk of only "phasing in" the remainder of the 25% claim over the next 12 months, this major confrontation seems certain to grow in scale and intensity during and even after • the election campaign.
Whitley Councils SCPS members :ular ensure that e forced to carry their blustering CPSA leader Thomas (left) •threat to withdraw from the aging and reactionary Whitley Council 'set-up which has shackl shackled public sector pay claims, and to wage an all out fight to force payment of the full, justified 1979 claim.
Such a struggle will lay the basis not only for immediate defence of living standards but also for future pay battles. break the Labour bureaucracy from capitulation to imperialism they are completely and dangerously wrong.
That sharp fight can only be taken up with Labour in power.
Politically, therefore, the bombing was utterly futile. There are dozens of Tories equally as reactionary as Neave waiting to step into his shoes.
And individual acts of terror along these lines fail to confront the real tasks-the mobilisation of the Irish working class. in mass action to drive out British imperialism and the struggle in Britain to build the basis for a mass movement in their • The IRA is quite wrong to blame the British workers for their silence and confusion on Ireland. It is inevitable that, with discussion censored and poisoned from all sides it is only the most advanced elements of the working class who can as yet penetrate the closely spun web of lies over Ireland.
It is the first task of revolutionaries to penetrate that web and destroy it.
*Troops out of Ireland now! *Self determination for the Irish people as a whole!
*Labour movement blacking of all army supplies!
*For a workers republic in Ireland with full rights for al minorities!