[slashing jobs in thể public sector. Yet still…]
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slashing jobs in thể public sector.
Yet still there is yet to , be an officially-led campaign to defend jobs and prevent fi actory closures.
Only by оССИ ipying threatened plants, fightir ig for supporting strike iction, opening the books of f the employer to show the thi eat to wider layers embodied in every bosses' attack, and a fig! ht for mass action to defeat the' Tories can the non-stop tide of sackings be halted.
Union leaders would s sooner lodge personal appeals with Tory ministers, mount feeble protest petitions, or neg ¡otiate redundancy pay than eng age in any • such fight to i defeat Thatcher. Thatcher polls and their glossy Saatchi and Saatchi election facade is stripped away to reveal the brutal face of capitalism, it is worth looking at just where the Tory Party gets its support from.
The Labour Party Research Department has just produced a valuable Information Paper listing the companies giving donations to the Tory Party and its various front organisations. It makes interesting reading.
Donations to the Party increased by £1 million (104%) in 1979-80 compared to 197879, with an extra 135 firms chipping in to back Thatcher. The total received (all of it the fruits of exploiting workers on the shopfloor of industry) was at least £2,762,813.
The document highlights a few of the firms that have hit hard times at the hands of government policy despite generous donations to the Tories.
Fodens gave £1,000 last year -and are now in the hands of the receiver. Bowater gave