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sacrificing the interests of the working Throughout the 14-week steel strike, class to the interests of private employers. The Tories could be defeated. The of workers that will take place on TUC leaders brushed aside appeals from working class, given leadership, has the May 14 will be a blow in the eye the Welsh TUC and steel strike commitpower to bring production to a halt and for Len Murray and his fellow TUC tees and actively fought to prevent the spread of strike action to other sections, What scares Callaghan and Murray is which could have led to a full-scale that feeling this same power would give only "action" the TUC wanted on May workers the confidence to drive out their 14 was a few lunch-time meetings. Indeed present right wing leaders, test out those these leaders do not want to defeat the in defence of jobs and conditions in who posture as "socialists", and move Tories; they are simply aiming to British Leyland: and they have sat back forward to the establishment of a genuine pressurise the government into a change tamely as the Tory hatchet men demolish workers government prepared to of policy. Their most ambitious demand social services, health, housing and is for Thatcher to "open the door of That is why Murray wanted only Number Ten" to a suitably obsequious lunchtime stoppages. And that is why Bill now cruising through Parliament, the TUC's verbal opposition to the legislation even while fighting in each area to develop action against the Tory attack, leaders who time and again argued in has been shown up as a fraud by the we raise the demand on the TUC leaders favour of wage controls and against decision of the AUEW to take Tory cash to call a General Strike to bring down the strikes to prevent cuts and closures under Tories. Only the exposure of the existing Callaghan-supposedly in order to "save treacherous leaders of the working class, the Labour government"-are equally linked to the construction of a principled dedicated to saving the Tories from the revolutionary leadership, can offer a way The ranks of the through their pickets. In other provinces.

The strike action by thousands Murray argued from the start that the delegation of TUC bureaucrats!

The reality is that these same union anger of the working class. education. to run postal ballots. general strike against the Tories.

Union leaders have blocked struggles With Prior's anti-union Employment The TUC leaders are not alone In opposing working class action to br ing down the Thatcher governmer this provinces. ing. government in five years' time!

At the same time Callaghan and his Thatcher election victory last May.

They know they would do just the socialist economy. drive Thatcher from office. implement socialist policies. forward to the working class. As a reformist leadership, tied hand