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BUILD A judges added their weight to her anti-union campaign, Thatcher herself stepped up the offensive last week.

Seeking to whip up the Tories' traditional support of small business owners, confused petty bourgeois and backward workers into a violent frenzy agai: st the independent strength of the working class, she denounced the "few wreckers" who "go on strike, indulge in secondary picketing and have demarcation disputes"

Let there be no doubt. Thatcher's gang, the direct spokesmen of British capitalism, intend immediate and drastic action against the organisations fought for and built by workers over 200 years of struggle.

The closed shop and other union rights that Thatcher and the employers she represents find so objectionable represents the major bulwark defending workers' jobs, wages and working. conditions against the insatiable drive of the bosses in every industry towards speed-up, rationalisation and increased exploitation.

Every one of the Tory attacks is planned with a view to weakening workers' resistance to the massive round of price rises, rent rises, closures and social service cuts that they plan to bring in to finance their tax handouts to top managers and employers.

It should be remembered that even the Tory Pree hated enter on that bring in tee Industrial Relations Act, jailed the Pentonville dockers and the Shrewsbury 6, and jacked REVOLU TIONARY Our answer The message is plain. The workers' movement is under attack on all sides.

New, principled leaders and a programme for action are needed to defend our rights.

This is why as our Manifesto makes clear, the Workers Socialist League fights in this election for the building of a revolutionary party as the answer to the present crisis.

We say:

*Vote Labour against the Tories on May 3.

*Follow this up with the struggle to drixe out the right wing Callaghan-Healey leadership and the fake lefts that refuse to fight them.

*Throw out the Concordat and its defenders in the union bureaucracy.

*Take forward the fight for a principled socialist alternative!