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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 sociai 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 antı-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 ciass 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 controis 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 ine Communist Party are to be exposed and pushed aside, and the mass struggles mobilised that can defeat and remove the Such a leadership must tight 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 O'Fishall's 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 Trotsky.

This 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 rertains small in numbers.

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The British Leyland Shop Stewards Combine Committee has re-affirmed its opposition to the Edwardes plan despite the majority which Edwardes received in the recent Company run ballot.

Meeting last Friday, the Committee passed a resolution rejecting the ballot as the outcome of "the wording of the question, company threats, and the abdication of responsibility blacking work from threatened plants.

The conference of some 200 convenors from both Leyland Cars and Leyland Vehicles ›lants was opened by the committer chairman, CP member Derek Robinson:

He said that already the prevent the plant closure received only 3 votes.

This amendment, moved by Bill Mullins from Rover Solihull and Alan Thornett from the Cowley Assembly Plant called for occupation committees to be set up in the threatened plants and for those plants to off as a result of disputes BL) to be ENDED; :

* Complete mobility and flexibility between jobs;

* A common work study agreement, scrapping any form of mutuality on studies, and giving industrial engineers unlimited access to the tracks with stopwatches.

The combine committee recognised that this was a massive generalised attack on