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• TrOOPS TO Anniversary Published by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League, 31 Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR.

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A contingent of at least 4,000 workers is expected to travel from South Yorkshire alone to attend the November • 28 lobby of Parliament against the cuts.

This is just one of the many indications that the demonstration of hostility to the Tories on that day will be massive.

Many organisations have added their support.

Moss Evans has pledged the support of the TGWU, calling on all of the unions 9,000 branches to support-with particular emphasis to those in trade groups in state-owned industries.

The right wing AUEW Executive has also declared its backing, as has the NALGO Executive-which is calling on branches to support.

Special train

And with the NUM National Executive also supporting the lobby, the Welsh NUM has organised a special train to London.

Labour councils in Manchester and Sheffield have agreed that employees who wish to lobby on November 28 can have leave of absence; and Birmingham City Council has said there will be no sanctions against those who do so.

In Liverpool a 5,000-strong demonstration against the cuts last Wednesday was backed by one-day strikes by GMWU and constructions workers.

NALGO members stopped work at 11.30 am in order to lobby • the council urging endorsement of subcommittee proposal to give council workers November 28 off with pay to back the lobby. The plan was narrowly defeated.

Work-ins

Elsewhere the level of struggle against the cuts is mounting. Last Wednesday saw 700 people from all over Derbyshire lobbying the county council in Matlock.

And, clearly under pressure to show some signs of action, NUPE leader Alan Fisher has now echoed the decision of the COHSE National Executive supporting work-ins in threatened hospitals.

But, conspicuously, Fisher was even more cautious than COHSE leader Spanswick in spelling out NUPE's restrictions on implementing this policy, and posed work-in action as an opposite to strike action against the cuts.

Non-cooperation

Meanwhile NUPE has instructed officials to develop a policy of non-cooperation on cuts which involve loss of jobs, loss of earnings or increased workload.

Assistant General Secretary Bernard Dix, spelling out this call, did not rule out strikes in certain circumstances.

But though militancy is cler! clearly on the increase, it is clear that no amount of token action will defeat the Tories' offensive.

One day action and the maxim um turn-out on November 28 must be used' as a part of the fight within all the public sector unions for the policies of:

* Occupations and supporting strike action to stop closure.

* Open the books of the public services! Reveal the profiteering by private suppliers bankers and contractors.

* Fight for the nationalisation of these firms, without compensation, under workers' management.

Restore all cuts! For a sliding scale of public service spending ta protect against rising costs, as assessed by elected trade union committees!

* Full support for any section in action against the cuts. For national, indefinite strike action to defeat the Tory government and its offensive.

* Link up in action with unions in the private sector! Build local councils of action drawing delegates from all workers' organisations! Prepare to bring down the Tories!

* Demand those 'lefts' who speak out on the cuts campaign for these fighting demands as the only way to defeat the Tory attacks.

Raison Zinoc Though an estimated 2,000 people marched through London on Sunday calling for Victory to the Patriotic Front', it can be assumed after weeks of confusion at the Lancaster House talks that not many actually realised what the slogan meant.

indeed the only outstanding question that appears to divide the Patriotic Front leaders and the Smith-Muzorewa government is how long a Britishsupervised "transitional period" should last.

Sell-out

The Patriotic Front are asking for six months. The British say there is "no question of that"-but are prepared to increase their 2month proposal to three or even four months.

In other words the sell-out of the Zimbabwe liberation struggle appears to be all but complete-with the Patriotic Front leaders having exploited As Tory Minister Raison puts the finishing touches to new, racialist anti-immigra tion laws, further proof of the barbarism of existing legislation was provided last weekend by moves to deport a 7-year-old Asian girl.

Community relations workers were desperately trying sdopted child thing in oxford, being put on a plane for Bangladesh-where there is no-one to meet or look after her. the valiant guerrilla struggles of their members in the bush as a cynical bargaining counter in debates on the technicalities of continued bourgeois rule in The whole sordid affair-in which the petty bourgeois Patriotic Front leaders have been as anxious as the imperialists to prevent the war of liberation flowing over into the socialist revolution in Zimbabwe -is now apparently to be topped off by the sending of a British police force to supervise the "transition" from one pro-capitalist regime to another.

Those in Britain and Africa who want to advance the struggles of the black masses of Zimbabwe must devote their energies in the coming months to the struggle for a revolutionary leadership capable of defending the independent interests of the workers and peasants of Zimbabwe against the treacherous policies of the Patriotic Front. Rally Speakers Committi Tickets £ at door.

For the Tories, however they may squirm and retreat on particular cases and the recent attempted deportation of nineyear-old Akram Dogar, such suffering is simply an embarassing side effect of their moves to further cut the minute trickle of black immigrants into Britain.

A major national demonstration on November 25 has been called against the Tories' racist legislation, and is widely backed by immigrant and labour movement bodies.

Socialist Press readers are urged to support.

League 100 YEARS SINCE BIR' FIVE YEARS SINCE WS New Ambassadors Hotel Upper Woburn Place London WC1 from WSL se, pl is fily 1.00 .50 National Demonstration Sunday 25 November Assemble 12 noon peakers Corner, Hyde Parl stop the Tory Immigration Proposals and British Nationality Act!

Repeal the 1971 Immigration Act!

SATURDAY DECEMBER 8 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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