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The aptly named exercise "Inside Right" by and territorials is the first such nationwide exercise since the war.

It was purposely concealed during the week of the Labour Party conference so that questions could not be asked there.

Although these manoeuvres are said to be related to external events, it is quite obvious that they are a preparation for a confrontation with the working class and are being organised by the Labour government; they go alongside BANBURY TRADES COUNCIL SETS UP.

UNEMPLOYMENT

COMMITTEE Following a meeting on unemployment in the town, the Banbury Trades Council has set up a committee to organise the campaign against unemployment and to organise the unemployed.

At its first meeting on Monday of this week decisions were taken to contact all trade unions in Banbury and asking them to make provisions for the recruitment of unemployed workers. In addition, the committee asked to be informed when redundancies are taking place so that they can be involved in the fight.

PUBLIC MEETING AYLESBURY Tuesday October 21st, 8.00pm "Unemployment"

Plough and Hammer, Stoke Rd.

OPEN LEYLAND BOOKS!

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This week's leaflet says that information on which the com•pany bases its forward planning should be made available. Is Leyland likely to be willing to reveal its model policy, its programme planning and development plans int, end achilable do competen within 48 hours?"

This editorial was reproduced on Monday morning as a clock ustice and countersigned by the Plant Director which demolishes any illusions in the 'impartiality' of the local press and explains why it was their men who were brought in to 'refute' the £23,00 figure.

The argument of commercial confidentiality is simply an employers' argument against the working class. As Trotsky makes clear in the Transitional Progr= amme, employers do not have secrets from each other. only from the working class. the organised police raid on the educational centre of the Workers' Revolutionary Party ai a preparation for an attack on the left in those conditions.

The "left" cabinet ministers such as Benn must have known about these. Why aren't they warning the working class of these preparations? Why aren't they fighting for the removal of Wilson and the right wing who are organising this preparation?

Military organisations like the T.A. are part of the "armed bodies of men" who will be used to attack the working class and any socialist should be fighting for their disbandment and not concealing what they are doing.

Last Friday Export Packing Services, a factory employing about 1,000 workers and engaged in export packing for the motor industry, victimised and sacked three shop stewards using a dispute over works bus fare increases as a pretext.

In reality the sackings are a direct attack on the shop floor org anisation at EPS following the acceptance of 240 compulsory re undancies by a mass meeting a month ago against the recommendation of the stewards' committee.

The whole labour force are now on strike in defence of the sacked stewards after a mass meeting at which only four workers voted against the recommendation of strike action.

know the dangers of the penetration of workers' eyes into the inner workings of their system that they so jealously guard these secrets.

In Oxford the open the books demand has been taken beyond the factories into the labour movement as a whole. The local Trades Council has set up a committee to investigate the books of the University. A committee has also been set up, which is working jointly with the hospital unions in defence of the NHS. to examine tl running and the use oi resources within the Area Health Authority A similar policy: mored from the Oxford ASTMS Health Service brauch. 5as overwhelmingly pastd =:

ASTMS National Conferesce.

These struggles are the first steps in the fight for workers' control of predastion and the nationalsica of private industr! ide: workers' managemen:

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30,000 men which include! 10,000 Army reservists

STRIKE AGAINST SACKINGS