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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 crackThe Callaghan Healey leadership has made it clear that it will opppose any perspective other than settling down and meekAnd, 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 pro: gramme 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 through. out the world, and drawing strength, and political lessons from revolutionary upheavals such as that which ousted the hated PRESS struggle against This means fighting for the reconstruction of the Trotsky.

This method of approach, rejecting any descent to simple trade union militancy, or concessions to any wing of the labour bureaucracy, is the mathod fought for by the Workers Socialist wage control, cuts The next period will see major class struggles in Britain. A and redundancies principled, Marxist leadership is essential. Our movement though strong in programme rerains small in numbers.

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FEE STEWARDS SMITTEE LEYLAND From back page Thousands more jobs are threatened in Scotland as the Tory fuelled recession grinds on.

BSR is to close one of its three factories in East Käbride -at a cost of 1,000 jobs.

"drop in demand" is blamed for the closure, which follows extensive short-time working among BSR's largely female workforce.

Similar arguments are also being used to explain the move by Chrysier (Talbot) UK to axe night shift production at their Linwood plant.

But while the employers talk of a market smaller than they planned to meet, they have also made it clear that they intend to introduce speed-up in Linwood designed to ensure that the smaller workforce produces nearly as many cars.

25% speed-up Chrysler management • are openly talking of enforcing a 25% increase in productivity.

Massey Ferguson, too, are planning cutbacks in their combine harvester plant at Kilmarnock, where 1,000 more sackings are expected.

For Scottish workers28,000 of whom have. been notified of redundancy since April-the alleged "problems" of these giant capitalist firms are only of incidental interest.

The central issue is to defend workers' jobs and living standards. This means exposing the lies and behind the scenes profiteering of the manufacturers and their bankers through the fight to open their books to elected trade union committees.

And it means preparing for full-scale occupation of threatened plants as a focal point for mass action to bring down this job-slashing Tory government, and as the basis of the fight for work-sharing without loss of pay to defend all jobs. letter to all employees after the result saying "Those who voted against the plan must -now accept the clear and decisive view of the majority"

That Edwardes, as an employer, should use the ballot result to launch an all out attack on the trade union movement Confed chairman Ken Baker greeted the ballot result-which went in favour of the closure of 13 plants, and the destruction 25,000 jobs in BL and 150,000 more outside BL-as "a victory for common sense" • Pledge to help rot ii TARDS COM. trade union claim on the annual pay review-and rearranged it for October 31, the day of the ballot result.

When the reply to the claim was made, it was obvious why he had planned it this way.

He may well have lost the ballot had he revealed his pay

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