DEFEND THE UNIONS against this all-round onslaught!

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Denning Thatcher out blacking action, and follows on a succession of rulings against the UPW and NUJ restricting union rights.

Under the guise of protecting "freedom" senior police chiefs and their allies on ,the legal benches are conspiring with the employers in a state offensive designed to destroy the organised strength of the trade union movement which stands in the way of British capitalism's desperate drive for increased profits. : Laurence Sparham, IFL Shirley Williams council rents sky high, is branded as "moderate"

The working class must prepare for battles against all those who, posing as opponents of unions and' seek to wreck the power of the destroy the basic rights fought for against generations of reactionary employers. PHOTO: Andyew Wlard, Report Moss Evans - TGWU blocked pro-union motion Three years of TUC collaboration in wage controls, and of them forcing through acceptance of factory closures, speed-up, sackings and 'participation'. plans in what they call the "national interest" has shown that these bureaucrats have no concept whatever of fighting for the independent class interests of their members.

This chronicle of betrayal is capped off with the wretched Concordat with Callaghan.

Not only that, but at Grunwick, Desoutters, Trust Houses Forte, Garners, Sandersons and a strowed effort ar unions on tor be held back by tinpot employers, with not a finger lifted by union officials.

At Garners TGWU officials have even taken the initiative in proposing to the police that they restrict picket lines to six-strong despite scab violence, while refusing to mobilise any support whatever from London's 500,000 TGWU members.

If such leaders canhot even build the unions under a Labour government, there is no way they will be able to defend them against the savagery of the Tories!