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We are still chasing £397.30 to complete our have only got twelve days in' which to find it! afford to fall short of our target this month so wi readers and supporters to think seriously about n tion to this fund which is vital for maintaining! ESS the work of the Workers Socialist League.

Contributions should be sent to: Socialist Press Fund, BM Box 5277, London Print workers march down Fleet Street Royce workers took strike action. BL's Cowley Assembly Plant was reduced to less than Engineering plants in many areas of the country were forced to admit badly reduced production. Civil Servants, too, as well as teachers joined local strikes and demonstrations.

#3,000 Fleet Street printworkers joined one of 60 London area demonstrations. Other marches included 20,000 in Glasgow, 10,000 Edinburgh, 15,000 in Liverpool and 2,000 in Leicester and Southampton.

In the North West Tallies overflowed the narrow spaces booked by pessimistic local officials.

Len Murray and Alan Fisher have spoken of May 14 being only the "first of many" days of action against Tory policies.

Trade unionists must insist that their leaders abandon such efforts to pressurise Thatcher into changing her mind, and begin the serious preparation of General Strike action to bring down this vicious anti-union May Fund and we We simply cannot e are asking all our naking a contribuSocialist Press and Socialist Press 100 Club 19 May, Ist-56; 2nd-53.

Leaders of four major unions-comprising nearly 4 million members-are collaborating in the training of scab labour to break a strike by GMWU members.

This scandal has arisen in the dispute over bonus payments to skilled thermal laggers working on the CEGB's Isle of Grain power station.

But the issues involved are far more wide reaching.

As is now usual in major disputes, the CEGB has threatened to close down the whole site-with a loss of over 2,000 jobs-if the laggers maintain their struggle.

And as is also now routine in major disputes, union officials have rushed to comply with this management blackmail.

What is not so usual is that the 27 laggers on the site,! together with their GMWU official, have withstood the pressure on them, and refused. to back down.

As a result leaders of the IGWU, EETPU, AUEW and UCATT have come together in: an unholy alliance to endorse CEGB moves to train unskilled workers to scab on the laggers.

GMWU officials, under pressure from their 6,500 laggers on sites throughout the country have warned that this could cause chaos, and asked for the four unions to be suspended from the TUC!

Whatever the outcome of the dispute the lesson is clear: a growing number of union bureaucrats are now prepared to organise scabbing sooner than organise a fight against the employers. forced to recognise the new facts of life.

It is reported that Thailand has been holding secret talks with the Vietnamese Stalinist regime over Kampuchea in which the Thai government has