WOT? NO HATS? Fighting the cuts'-TUC style

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O-RETURNE Postal workers have been struggling up front paths with an additional burden in recent weeks: a package of TUC publicity material circulated to selected union bureaucrats and branch officers.

Thudding through letter boxes all over the country have come expensiviely-produced plastic TUC wallets bearing the proud title "TUC Campaign for Economic and Social Advance' Inside are a range of metal and stick on badges, and single copies of two posters, one leaflet and two car stickers with the meaningless slogan "Forward to the 80s, not back to the 30s!"

There is also a grandioselytitled cardboard "TUC Briefissues raised by the TUC's Campaign"

Inform TUC

In reality, it contains only one vacuous leaflet, which winds up offering the reader paper; your Councillor... :" and "Inform the TUC about what you are doing".

One thing is clear: the TUC itself is spending a great deal of our money in a futile and trans-! parent attempt to cover over the fact that it is doing absolutely nothing to fight the cuts at local or national level. -A.

Its pathetic gestures of a national demonstration on March 9 and a "day of action"lunchtime meetings!-on May 14 are designed to allow the Tory bulldozers to complete their demolition of social: services.

But while the TUC continues to block serious policies of strike action and occupation to stop the cuts, many union bureaucrats will be disappointed that its American-style synthetic propaganda splurge has gone off at half-cock: after all, there are no flashy cardboard campaign hats to wear! ART STANDARD PAIGN FOR OMIC ANDSOCIAL Iby teher Tuc TUC cuts cover-up kit Brei TUC Briefcase for a new Parliament.

NALGO delegates angrily replied that this meant in practice no fight and leaving it

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some "things to do"-such as "Protest to your MP; your local