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•..THEY'YE IMPLEMENTED OUR GARNERS STRIKE POLICY NO MORE THAN 6 PICKETS AT ANY DISPUTE !!!
WEST HE TY WORK!
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UNION DUES WORMERS ON TRAIL UPHOLDING THE RIGHT RAGHT 12: SYKET:
HEY O'FISHALL-LOOK AT THESE UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES- 2% MILLION AND STILL RISING!
it mus "JOBLESS MRST MAKE FORGET ALL THAT-THIS IS A GREAT DAY FOR THE LABOUR MOVEMENT. THE T.U.C. IS HOLDING A PARTY- WANNA COME ? workers denied the right to a job. Murray whined that mass unemployment would lead, to:
"social disturbance [!] and youngsters having resentment created in their minds as a way of life"
Above all the right wing TUC and Labour leaders want to forestall any rise in class consciousness-particularly among the youth, who are by no means reconciled to the miserable future planned for them by Thatcher and Callaghan.
Destruction Yet there is no solution to unemployment without an all-out struggle for the overthrow of the crisis-ridden capitalist system in which the pursuit of profit now entails the vandalistic destruction of whole sectors of industry and social services, and the utilisation of the vast pool of unemployed (I'VE NEVER SEEN HIM SO SMUG! SURELY" HE MUST KNOW THAT NOW THE DAMN PHONE WON'T STOP RINGING FOR WEEKS... WHAT SHALL I TELL THE MEMBERS?
I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT— AT LAST THE TORIES HAVE STARTED TO LISTEN TO US... workers as a wages and movement.
lever to force down divide the labour Socialist The struggle for full employment in a planned, socialist economy requires the fullest mobilisation of the working class to remove the Tory government and establish a new, socialist leadership in the labour movement.
But it can and must begin with a fight in today's conditions to:
*Stop the sackings! ccupy threatened plants; fight for supporting strikes and blacking action. Demand work-sharing on full pay to preserve all jobs.
. *Open the books of industry to elected trade union commitnationalise basic industry and the banks without compensa anc tion under workers' management. *Organise the unemployed!
Full union rights for unemployed workers and youth! Force the union leaders to fight Tory attacks on dole and other benefits! *Build councils of action!
Fight to defend and extend occupations and strikes through local bodies drawing delegates from all labour movement organisations. *Prepare to bring down the Tories! Demand union leaders in the public and private sectors prepare for a general strike to drive out the Thatcher government. *Kick out the Callaghan/ Healey leadership! Demand the Labour left' begin a fight to remove the right wing and spell out a socialist internationalist programme (see page 5). *Build revolutionary leadership in the workers' movement!
CO'FISHALL-DONT YOU REALISE? THE TORIES ARE ) DENATIONALISING EVERYTHING, EVEN THE POST OFFICE-THERE'LL BE (PANDEMONIUM!
NGRATULATIONS. NICE ONE,
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