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betrayals, the Tory government has immediately begun wielding a sharpened axe on jobs, conditions and social services. Trade Union rights face imminent legal attack. Prices are already beginning to rocket upwards.

Plum sectors of state industry will be handed to the Tories' profiteering big business backers; and the pay rises to police and armed forces mark only the prelude to increased state violence against pickets and anti-fascists, and an intensified army crackThe Callaghan-Healey leadership has made it clear that it will opppose any perspective other than settling down and meekAnd, though they have once more dusted off their near-forgotten "socialist" speeches, Labour's "left-wing" MPs have continued to duck away from any fight to remove Callaghan.

TUC leaders, too, have set out to establish a basis for collaboration with Thatcher and the Tory cabinet, parallelling their anti working class alliance with Wilson and then Callaghan.

But the working class has experienced and overcome such betrayals before-to topple Heath's union bashing government in 1974, and smash through Callaghan's reactionary Phase 4 of wage controls in a series of monumental pay battles last winter.

These experiences are not dead. They point to the way that jobs, social services and hard-won union rights can be defended But a principled, revolutionary leadership is needed if the Labour traitors, the TUC collaborators and their hangers-on in the Communist Party are to be exposed and pushed aside, and the mass struggles mobilised that can defeat and remove the Such a leadership must fight day in and day out for a programme of transitional demands which, starting from today's conditions and today's consciousness within the working class, lead workers to grasp the necessity for socialist revolution.

And in taking up democratic demands-such as an end to racial and sexual discrimination, it must show the crucial role that must be played by the working class as the only consistently revolutionary class capable of leading the struggle for the And it must fight on an international basis-mobilising solidarity for anti-imperialist and anticapitalist struggleswhether in Ireland, in Southern Africa or elsewhere throughout the world, and drawing strength, and political lessons Tron avolutionary upheavals such 8s that which ousted the hatea This means fighting for the reconstruction of the Trotsky. This method of approach, rejecting any descent to simple trade union militancy, or concessions to any wing of the labour buresucracy, is the method fought for by the Workers Socialist The next period will see major class struggles in Britain. A principled, Marxist leadership is essential. Our movement though strong in programme rerhains small in numbers.

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The 92 page document is aimed at undermining the traditional role of the shop stewards by doing away with mutuality on a range of issues.

The threats to sack strikers even after procedure is exhausted is a direct attack on the right to strike.

Yet the response of our leaders is to get involved in participation and the LCJNC, both of which are aimed at reducing shop-floor strength.

We must prepare now to ensure that there is no repeat of last year's farce. We need to unite the combine behind a common claim, and we need to prepare all of BL Cars for a EXP the answers in CUTSIN MAGE CUIS SOCIALIST PRESS defend jobs, social services fighting SATURDAY 7th JUNE 11.30 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. DIGBETH CIVIC HALL. DIGBETH, BIRMINGHAM Entrance £1 Trial sub (UK)

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The theat to Renold's workers is part and parcel of the threat to all workers' jobs and indeed flows out of the crisis of the motor industry. Steps should be taken to discuss these attacks jointly with car workers.

The Leyland Action Committee conference planned for June 7 in Birmingham is an ideal opportunity for any Renold worker who wants to fight management plans to bring the problems of the supply industries right into the centre of a discussion on how to defend carworkers from Edwardes' attacks.

For any strategy to defend BL workers must involve plans for an integrated plan for the whole of the motor industry.

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by T. Brook