Corby: efendi PHOTO: Laurence Sparhara, IFL jobs
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Steelworkers at the January 28 rally in Cardiff, when 100,000 workers stopped work Corby steelworkers have been out in force on the picket lines since the beginning of the national steel strike.
The men have been determined that all steel movements both in and out of BSC and private manufacturers and stockholders should be stopped.
A strike committee has been set up to co-ordinate pickets and control the plants. Pickets have been extended to Grantham and Leicester's Metal, Box factory and also to the docks at Kings Lynn andi Boston:
The GMWU and TGWU have given the men full support and the NUR have blacked all movements of steel in and out of Corby.
Clearly the attitude of the steelworkers is that the strike is no longer just a matter of wages but a political issue of defending workers' livelihoods against the reactionary Tory government and against those trade union and Labour leaders who have consistently refused to fight against the capitalist attacks. living below the poverty lineas the outcome of unemployment, low wages and other problems.
Such figures indicate that the oppressed people of Northern Ireland are carrying the heaviest burden of the British economic crisis. • To resolve these problems the fight must press ahead for the withdrawal of British troops, the nationalisation without compensation of major industries, banks and landlords North and South, and the estab lishment of a united, socialist