Steel Strike

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BSC's latest pay and closures ultimatum would simply pave the way for further attacks in the future as the crisis continues to run out of control.

Now, in BSC, British Leyland, and all other firms where "viability" is quoted as the reason for wage-cuts and sackings, workers must stand firm and fight for their independent interests against this government of bankers ' and asset-strippers.

Steel workers must prepare now for mass battles.

In every area ISTC members must elect strike committees and at once seek the active support of other unions (and labour movement organisations) in the formation of councils of action to defend, extend and develop the pay strike, and mobilise the maximum forces to protect picket lines against the forces of the státe.

Within the strike committees and councils of action it will be necessary to scrutinise, challenge and combat at each step the manoeuvres of the ISTC and TUC bureaucracy, who time and again in the past have shown themselves to be putty in the hands of the UNION employers.

Such a challenge can only be mounted by a revolutionary leadership with a programme which starts not from the problems of the employers but from the needs of the working class.

This means fighting to develop mass strike action to bring down the Tory government, fighting for the removal of the labour traitors who began the slaughter of the steel industry, and creating conditions for the establishment of a workers' government, to carry through policies leading to a planned socialist economy as the only defence of jobs and living standards.

*Full support to the pay strike, Defend living standards!

*No closures! No redundancies! For work sharing throughout BSC without loss of pay!

*Open BSC's books to elected trade union committees to reveal the profits made by bankers, contractors and users from BSC's 'losses""

*Bring down the Tories!

*For a socialist planned

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