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I KNEW IT! I KNEW THEY WERE BEGINNING TO CAVE IN TO THEIR MEMBERS! THIS CALLS FOR ACTION The national demonstration against unemployment called in Liverpool for 29 November forms the next major focus of working class hostility to the Thatcher With special trains and coaches laid on from all areas it is certain that many of the most militant sections of the workers' movement will participate in a demonstration called in the heart of one of the areas most devastated by Tory policies.

But nor will there be any lack of hypocritical Labour and trade union leaders willing to turn out on a Saturday protest against unemployment without being prepared to lift a finger in practice to fight cuts and closures or mount any struggle to bring down the Tory governBreast-beating speeches can be expected from a whole range of bureaucrats: yet the stark fact is that there has not been a single officially-led fight to stop even one factory closure or public service cut since the ...WE MUST HAVE A MORE REPRESENTATIVE MEETING - I'LL CALL IN THE WHOLE T.U.C.

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THIS WASA ANYoF US TO DO WITH B.L? MEETING ON I'VE ONLY GOT 25 REMEMBER THE OLD PRINCIPLE, UNITED WE STAND - DIVIDED WE FACE A STRIKE! ALL THOSE AGAINST ACTION? Tories took office.

The few struggles that have taken place-the St. Benedicts Hospital work-in; the Meccano occupation; the St. Columba's Hospital work-in; the Gardners occupation in Manchester; the fight to defend Nottingham teacher Eileen Crosbie-have resulted not from initiatives from union officials, but from militant resistance among the rank and file.

And they have all been deliberately isolated by national union leaders in the hope that they will be quietly defeated and thus help to deter other workers from taking similar action.

The mood in the ranks of the workers movement however is very different from the wretched capitulations of the headersnio This was borne out at the 700-strong delegate conference 'Local Government in Crisis' convened by Lambeth Labour Group on November 1.

Attempts by top NUPE bureaucrat Ron Keating to blame cuts on union members were vocally attacked by rank and file NUPE delegates and other floor speakers. Miserable NUPE amendments designed to eliminate any call to action from the draft resolution were overwhelmingly thrown out.

Trade unionists and Labour activists instead voted in favour of a series of amendments supported jointly by Socialist Press, the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement and Socialist Organiser-which spelled out a commitment to fight for mass strike action against the cuts in order to defeat the Tory offensive.

This fight must be pressed home in the campaign for the November 29 demonstration.

The demand must be placed firmly on those that claim to lead the workers' movement that they stop their excuses for inaction and start the long overdue fight to mobilise mass strike action to throw out the Thatcher government.

A new leadership must be built in the labour movement to challenge, oust and replace those that stand opposed to such a fight.

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SOCIALIST PRESS Michael Foot has been selected by the Parliamentary Labour Party as the 'man most likely'.

They see him as best equipped to stem a forward movement of workers that threatens to oust the Thatcher government and return a Labour government under stormy conditions.

Despite his ageing and tattered left' image-laboriously refurbished by the Tory press in recent weeks-Foot has for years been a loyal servant of the Callaghan gang.

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During the lifetime of the last Labour government Foot as a Cabinet minister lent his sup-