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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 sectors 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 crack.

The Callaghan-Healey leadership has made it clear that it will opppose any perspective other than settling down and meekforgotten "Socialist" speeches, Labour's "left-wing" MPs have And, though they have once more dusted off their near. WHEN IT LOOKS-LKE SUBSCRIBE 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 HERE'S NO WAY OUT their anti working class alliance with Wilson and then Callaghan.

But the working class has experienced and overcome such to Socialist Press betrayals before-to topple Heath's union bashing government in 1974, and smash through Callaghan's reactionary Phase 4 of wäge 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 rola 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 Please send me trial sub/six months/one year revolutionary upheavals such as that which ousted the hated of Socialist Press. I enclose......

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 policies to defend jobs, 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.

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And at the same time the utter failure of TUC and Labour bureaucrats to offer any perspective for a fight steering committee of the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movementwhich championed the political struggle against the TUC-imposed wage controls under Labour's "Social Contract"-has called a conference to draw out the political implications of the *Fight the cuts! Occupy to defend all jobs! Work sharing on full pay!

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