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Returned to office after five years of Labour betrayals, the Tory government has immediately begun wielding a sharpened axe on jobs, conditions and social services. Trade Union rights face imminent legal attack. Prices are already beginning to rocket upwards.

Plum seçtors of state industry will be handed to the Tories' profiteering big business backers; and the pay rises to police and armed forces mark only the prelude to increased state violence against pickets and anti-fascists, and an intensified army crackThe Callaghan-Healey leadership has made it clear that it will opppose any perspective other than settling down and meek. And, though they have once more dusted off their near-forgotten "Socialist" speeches, Labour's "left-wing" MPs have continued to duck away from any fight to remove Callaghan.

TUC leaders, too, have set out to establish a basis for collaboration with Thatcher and the Tory cabinet, parallelling their anti-working class alliance with Wilson and then Callaghan.

But the working class has experienced and overcome such betrayals before-to topple Heath's union-bashing government in 1974, and smash through Callaghan's reactionary Phase 4 of wage controls in a series of monumental pay battles last winter.

These experiences are not dead. They point to the way that jobs, social services and hard won union rights can be defended But a principled, revolutionary leadership is needed if the Labour traitors, the TUC collaborators and their hangers-on in the Communist Party are to be exposed and pushed aside, and the mass struggles mobilised that can defeat and remove the Such a leadership must fight day in and day out for a programme of transitional demands which, starting from today's conditions and today's consciousness within the working class, lead workers to grasp the necessity for socialist revolution.

And in taking up democratic demands-such as an end to racial and sexual discrimination, it must show the crucial role that must be played by the working class as the only consistently revolutionary class capable of leading the struggle for the And it must fight on an international basis-mobilising solidarity for anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggleswhether in Ireland, in Southern Africa or elsewhere throughout the world, and drawing strength, and political lessons from revolutionary upheavals such as that which ousted the hated This means fighting for the reconstruction of the TrotskyThis method of approach, rejecting any descent to simple trade union militancy, or concessions to any wing of the labour bureaucracy, is the method fought for by the Workers Socialist The next period will see major class struggles in Britain. A principled, Marxist leadership is essential. Our movement though strong in programme remains small in numbers.

NUJ members at Pergamon ' Press, . Oxtora, returned to work last week after three days on strike with a major victory under their belt.

For the first time in the history of the firm a union has stood up to Labour millionaire Robert Maxwell's policy of down in the occupied North of Ireland. indiscriminate • sackings and won.

A sacked member, Louise ly accepting five years of Tory devastation. Guidery, was reinstated in a different part of the same department from which she had been sacked, and the company promised to observe disciplinary procedures in future.

Maxwell moved to settle the strike as soon as he was sure that the NUJ national executive would make it official.

Part of his thinking was almost certainly to prevent a prolonged dispute drawing out against renewed Tory attacks. for the NUJ members involved the full lessons.

The NEC in fact hedged over the question of making the strike official, seizing on the Tory government. assessment of the full time organiser Gary Morton, that it was about to be settled.

If Maxwell had learned that, the dispute would probably still be on.

The tamt unions Pergamon, the NGA and APEX have been shaken up by the disemancipation of mankind. pute after refusing to take any action in support.

In the NGA a petition was circulating demanding a meeting and in APEX the FoC was on the point of resigning, when the Shah in Iran. strike ended.

The NUJ Oxford branch ist Fourth International. must now take up a fight against those in the Labour Party and ASTMS who continue provide cover for this reactionLeague. ary employer by keeping him in membership.

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