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the books of the employer delegates opened to • show • the tinks movement bor between "loss-making" firms parties to and the network of bankers, strengthen stri suppliers, contractors and on wages and the speculators.

Unemployment thus grows with no presumption that sponHowe For a real alternative to the Tories' "smash and grab" tactics which offer only untold years of misery to the working class, it is necessary to turn not to the present Labour leaders, or to the Labour left' • whose nationalist calls for import controls and state "intervention" in inustry offer no prospect of a for a isi pianned economy, but rather to the struggle for action at every level against the cuts, rationalisation and redundancies as they are threatened.

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Factories threatened with anairo must he sinian and retailers that f hospitals, schi other facilitie: result of the wise be. occur trade unic examine and between the f private profite Suppor Supporting must be fou present wave section of wol stand back ir their own jobs Local cOL chruld he fa profit from them.

public sector, oois, nurseries and s in jeopardy as a cuts should likevied while elected committees publicise the links sublic services and rting strikes strike action ight for: in the : of attacks, no rkers can afford to 7 confidence that i are safe.

Incils of action irmert ramnricina from labour dies and political coordinate and aggles on the cuts, i against closures Such councils of action provide an, arena in which the question of socialist programme to defend jobs and living standards can be argued out, and those Labour 'lefts' that claim to oppose Callaghan can be put on the spot and can be called upon to put their words into practice or stand exposed.

The growth of such struggles at local level must combine with broader, national-level action on wages, on trade union rights and eventually on jobs and on the cuts.

Mass action

In this way it is possible to build the kind of mass national action that is necessary to force the Thatcher government out of office, and create the political conditions for a serious struggle for the removal of Labour's right wing leadership and the exposure of the empty talk of the Tribunite 'left' The struggle for a government genuinely representative of the working class, committed to the socialist policies of the nationalisation of basic industry without compensation under workers' management, and the establishment of. a planned, socialist economy, could then stride to the centre of the stage.

in its daily fight in the labour movement for action to defeat the Tory offensive and for be bunny or d revolution- far tha krildina af a rainltina ary leadership prepared to lead the necessary struggles, the Workers Socialist League is carrying out the vital political preparation for this situation.

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