Day of Deceit!

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HA Though last week's diplomatic moves by Soviet leaders and other politicians appeared to focus on the question of Afghanistan, there is little doubt that the main driving force behind Pay PEN AG FE Pensioners join march in Oxford May 14-designed by the TUC as a day of weak-kneed lunch-time meetings and badge wearing-proved to be a day of mass strike action, with more than 250,000 workers participating in a total of 130 demonstrations throughout the country.

In this respect the day can be seen as a substantial failure for:

*The government-whose vicious anti-working class policies, far from beating workers into submission have triggered a rising tide of militancy throughout the labour movement.

*The employers-who wound up paying out wages to those workers who clocked in, while in many cases achieving only 50% production.

*The media-whose attempt to witch-hunt and crush the anti-Tory movement failed to nrevent a stannage that nara. machine and mobilised more strikers than the first day of the General Strike.

*The union leaders-whose efforts to use the day of action to letjoff steam wound up yet again demonstrating that they are far behind their members, and incapable of mobilising the potential anti-lory movement in united action to defeat the Thatcher government.

Yet so great has been the media cover-up of the events of May 14 that few rank and file workers will see it in this light.

A cross section of the day's antivitiao affaro T101Y Aiffrunot aULIVILIOS VICIS YELY UMICICIL reading from that offered by the capitalist press:

*Docks at Hull, Southampton, Liverpool and some London docks were halted.

*More than half the mines were shut down.

*Inter City and many local train services were halted or disrupted.

*Bus sérvices in many areas were hit.

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