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Socialist Press1980 1980-08-13Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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AMONG last week's crop redundancy plans were: 600 jobs to go at Cummins diesel engines from October. 520 jobs to go in the closure of Pickering Blackburn, a carpet machinery firm. 600 production workers face immediate redundancy at the Foden truck firm which has gone into receivership, though still producing trucks.
Meanwhile a new survey by a group of leading industrial and financial organisations predicts Joseph unemployment at 2½ million until at least 1986-unless the Thatcher government : quickly changes its policies. . 21 New 6-page issue now available price 12p plus 12p postage from WSL, BM Box 5277, London WC1V 6XX.
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With workers by the thousand taking. to the .52 streets to oppose Tory policies there is plainly no £8.00 lack of militancy in the ,14.00 organised working class.
Yet the existing trade union bureaucrats and Labour leaders whether right or left -have £9.00 no perspective to offer those workers prepared to fight in defence of jobs, living standards, social services and demo£10.00 cratic rights.
These can only be defended through policies which start ab/six months/one year from the independent interests Jose.. of the working class, which, as an international class, has nothing to gain and everything to lose from attempts to restore the profitability of their "own" employing class.
In a period where the contradictions of the anarchic capitalist system force the wholesale closure and destruction of the productive forces of society. only a socialist planned
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WOMAN WORKER
For a clear struggle againsi wage control, cuts and redundancies