Backing for Scots campaign
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Despite a heavy snowfall which had blocked many roads in the region, thirty trade unionists turned up at a meeting in Kircaldy, Fife, to discuss the campaign against local government cuts and the demonstration against unemployment in Glasgow on 21 February.
The Fife Trades Union Action Committee has existed for over twelve months, and has already organised two demonstrations in Kircaldy and Dunfermline.
The Committee is supported by almost every union in the area. It has booked five buses to take people to the Glasgow demonstration and every indication is that many more will be needed.
It has also called a demonstration outside the Regional Council meeting on Tuesday 27 January to urge no compromise with Tory attacks on local government expenditure.
The Region has agreed to allow a spokesperson for the Committee to address the full The meeting also heard Lynne McKenzie, campaign secretary for the Central Region Campaign Against Unemployment explain details of the demonstration in Stirling on 7 February: It was agreed to support the Stirling demonstration.
There is no doubt that 1981 has begun wit h a new enthusiasm for active opposition to the Tory government.
There is a determinatio ..to make it clear that enoug is enough. This determination has to be built upon and nat allowed to be diffused if the Tory government is to be brought down.
There is no way we can passively let capitalism's problems be solved at our expense. There can be no compromise with Tory policies.
They must be fought-let those who have no stomach for the fight stand aside.