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official struggle against closure have focussed on negotiating instend inev redundancy payments while collaborating in cutbacks and speed-up.

Even while they engage in ritual handwringing about youth unemployment these leaders are busily worsening the plight of the next generation by selling off jobs in all directions.

The fact is that the Tory strategy and the world wide slump are both the product of a crisis-ridden capitalist system in which the rate of profit has slumped to an all-time low.

Destruction

Every effort to restore capitalist profitability leads • to further destruction of the jobs, living standards and basic rights of the international working class.

While the crisis of capitalism brings only the wanton and anarchic destruction of the productive forces, the material basis exists for a socialist solution.

For workers that reject Joseph's arrogant Work for Less!" ultimatum and the prospect of permanent mass unemployment, the way forward lies in a break from the timid reformist politics of the TUC and Labour leaders and a fight for: *Defend all jobs! For occupations, strikes and blacking action to force a policy of work sharing on full pay! No to the nationalistic policy of import solely due to the trade union leadership at all levels in Leyland. When they have not actually supported the company they have sabotaged any real fight to defend union organisation.

•Some union leaders are now saying they are against the new proposals.

But in reality all the top officials are already negotiating directly with Leyland, completely ignoring their members and even the senior stewards.

The company also want the new negotiating body to step in against strikers.

Obviously the company is confident the union leaders will agree to this-having seen what the bureaucrats have already done in BL.

With their help the company has just forced through a 5% Day deal with 92 pages of strings. Now they are looking to strings. Now tney are looking lo the November review and quite obviously have a similar figure in mind..

The union leaders' attitude stems from their defence of the UNION *No to the anti-union laws! No talks with the Tories-for a general strike to force them out of office.

*Unite strikes and occupations as a step towards forming councils of action.

*Remove the Labour and trade union leaders who won't fight. For a workers' government!

*Open the books of the employers who threaten redundancies or refuse wage increases, and of their suppliers and bankers! Prove the case for their nationalisation, without compensation 'under workers' management.

*Fight for a woman's right to work! Defend and extend state nursery and childcare provision! For free abortion on demand! Defeat Prior's attacks on maternity rights!

*Defend living standards! Fight for cost of living clauses to give a 1% rise in take home pay for every 1% rise in the cost of living-as calculated by elected committees "of trade unionists and housewives.

*Stop all cuts! Occupy threatened facilities, fight for supporting strike action. Set up workers' inquiries into health, welfare and social services to expose private profiteering and the savage impact of the cuts!

*Demand a restoration of public spending with automatic increases to keep pace with inflation. Demand Labour Councils repudiate debts and interest charges and refuse to implement cuts or raise rates and rents.