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Fisher wanted to ensure a "co-ordinated campaign" , he told Barnett that a regional march could not be held without General Council approval:

"We certainly do not expect regional councils to launch initiatives which, in effect, are a call for a stoppage of work. I must ask you not to proceed.."

Instead the TUC is talking of six month "national campaign" focussing on unemployment.

No leadership Denied national or local leadership from the TUC; with public sector union leaders meekly assisting the implementation of Tory cuts and closures; and with union leaders in the private sector sacrificing their members' jobs and wages in vain attempts to restore profitability to the employers, workers face a major crisis of leadership in the fight against the Tory offensive. • Disarmed by the treachery of the TUC and diverted by parliamentary illusions of the Labour leaders, workers must turn to the building of a new, member of the AUEW.

• He explained how the District Committee had earlier held an inquiry into the dispute and had come out in its support. Since then nothing had been done to put that support into practice.

For these reasons the strikers had decided to make all the facts about the actions of the union officials public and stop what Danny Broderick described as a "diplomatic game" with them, The strike committee are appealing for support through the TGWU and the AUEW to demand that the leadership act and make the strike official immediately.

The next mass picket, they said, is likely to take place outside Transport House in London.

ALTERNATIVE ...IN RETURN FOR SPEED-UP IN PRODUCTION... SO WE'LL DEMAND THAT EDWARDES IMPLEMENTS MICHAEL THIS AT CHIEF EDWARDES ONCE! EXECUTIVE. revolutionary leadership if jobs and living standards are to be defended.

*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 *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.

This is obviously correct. But it must be a real mass picket, which is not the case at the present time.

If the revolutionary left were to mobilise behind this strike, its effectiveness could be transformed and support for it won in the broad trade union movement.

Individuals

But that is not the case at the present time. This week the Socialist Workers Party produced only one or two individuals, while the International Marxist Group claimed to have mobilised only 12 people from various parts of the country and the actual number seemed to be even less than that.

It is true that the Workers TER: COMRADES, THE T&G HAS COMMISSIONED THIS NEW EUROFINANCE PLAN FOR LEYLAND. IT'S A RADICAL ALTERNATIVE TO EDWARDES... AND ADVISES US TO FACE BOTH WAYS AT ONCE...

*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.

Monday's mass picket Power have mobilised for it and so have the Socialist Labour Group, with the biggest groups of pickets coming from the WSL.

But this is not enough.

Unless the bigger groups get involved, the strike cannot be sustained and the necessary support mobilised . within the unions.

Socialist Press calls for the biggest possible mobilisation as soon as the date is set by the strike committee for the next mass picket.

*Donations to the Adwest strike fured should be sent to: Danny Brodel ick, 46 Berkley Road, Read ng.

RSE, IT... ER, 1 SOME LOSSE. • FOR GOD'S SAKE O'FISHALL, WE AGREED ALL THIS MONTHS AGO!

I DON'T CARE WHAT NAME YOU GIVE MY PLAN - JUST STOP DITHERING AND FIX THAT