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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 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 crackdown The Callaghan-Healey leadership has made it clear that it will oppose any perspective other than settling down and meekly acceptAnd, 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, 100, 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 in the winter of These experiences are not dead. They point to the way that jobs, social services and hard-won union rights can be defended against 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 Tory governSuch a leadership must tight 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 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 emancipation of And it must fight on an international basis-mobilising sulidarity for anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggles-whether in Ireland, South Africa or elsewhere throughout the world, and drawing strength and political lessons from revolutionary upheavals such as the redistruction othered skys Four Ther nationa Fighting for To this end, the Workers Socialist League is affiliated to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee which fights to reaffirm and develop the method and principles of the 1938 Transitional Programme, and for full discussion in the world Trotskyist move.

The next period will see major class struggtes in Britain. A principled Marxist leadership is essential. Our movement though OIN US and take forward the struggle for socialism rocketing upwards.

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rong in programme is small in number Edwardes Attempts to: reduce the workforce have met with some success as the unions have agreed to "natural wastage" and phoney early retirement schemes.

Hundreds of jobs have disappeared over the last year or two.

Having laid the ground carefully the bosses moved in last week. In an unprecedented not still be redundancies and short-time working!

On the contrary, in his view there would almost certainly have to be some.

This message was passed back to the workforce and was received with considerable anger.

WSL leaflet

It is essential that the union leadership in the company breaks from its past acceptance of the viability arguments if they are tò defend the jobs and conditions of their members.

A WSL leaflet handed out at the largest CAV plant in Acton.

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