Workers Socialist League

Socialist Press, Trotskyism Today and the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee, 1975–1984

[(ratifted by United Kingdon 1974) 1, Members agicess…]

Socialist Press no. 146, 21 April 1979 · scan pp. 7–8 · International Telecommunication Convention · about 327 words

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(ratifted by United Kingdon 1974)

1, Members agicess take all ponible imorsures, comparible arith the sestem of telecommunicarion uncd, with a yiretro ensuring the secrecy o Labour leaders have spearheaded attacks on democratic rights-reviving Official Secrets Act in ABC case conditions and "keep working";

It led last year to the reactionary meeting of top managers and convenors which voted, with only five votes against, to accept Michael Edwardes' plan for a cut of 12,000 jobs in Leylands Cars.

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And this in turn foreshadowed the closure of the Triumph plant at Speke and Merseyside adding another 3,000 workers to the already swollen Liverpool dole queues.

The essence of 'participation' of course is that for all its pretence of democracy and shop floor involvement, decisions are taken by management. Convenors become mere errand boys for Leyland bosses.

The Tories have little time for this charade. Since management are going to decide anyway, they see no Labour and TUC collaborators.

On the question of 'law and order", for instance, it has long been a valid boast of Labour leaders that they have vastly increased spending on the police and raised police pay to giddy heights.

Successive Labour Home Secretaries have supervised the setting up of the Special Patrol Group-a handpicked body of loutish thugs designed to smash through picket lines. and attack workers' demonstrations.

They have armed the police to an unprecedented degree. They have issued blanket bans on demonstrations and even meetings. They have masterminded the drawing up and enactment of the Criminal Law Act that oulaws occupations and squatting. They forced through and implemented the so called "Prevention of Terrorism" Act. nternational correspondenc IN TOMORROW! ARTICLE 22 of Telecommunications JOHNSTONE COLONEL HA IN

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FOR! ABOUR inevitably to support for bourgeois policies. Thus the Newsline waxes indignant that the WSL leaflet should have criticised the Arab League's economic boycott of Egypt, branding it as a

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