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Now March into Battle Against Tories!

Socialist Press no. 248, 28 May 1981 · scan p. 1 · about 519 words

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100,000 people are expected to join in the Londo Peoples March for Jobs. Since the beginning of May, the route have downed tools to support the March. T joined in it or attended its rallies and meetings. And call for action to end mass unemployment.

But the question is what kind of action? Once Trafalgar Square next Sunday, the TUC and Labour I their previous scandalous acceptance of unemployme action to follow up the March.

These leaders know that the March tapped the vast reservoi reactionary policies of the Tory Government. But many of tub-thumping speeches against unemployment along the cour: presided over cuts, closures and mass sackings, without lifting a From the very outset, the right wing and Communist Party inated the organisation of the March have set out to avoid gir campaign. They have set out to portray unemployment as s than the outcome of a deliberate policy implemented by the Than haus aunidad collins nut any ronerate nolicier sley Have avulutu speung vur any convicte pursuits action to defend existing jobs, or defeat the cuts.

They have made no call for the occupation of threatened factories to prevent closure: no call for strike action and occupations to stop the cuts in the public sector.

Yet the fact is that only through such policies, through the defeat of the Tories, and through the fight for alternative socialist policies, can workers lay the basis for the necessary crash programme of public works to create 3 million jobs for the unemployed.

Only through socialist policies can the squandering of millions on the arms budget be brought to an end, homelessness be eliminated, and public services expanded to meet the In the aftermath of the Peoples March, the support it has generated must therefore be given new direction and impetus. The support committees in each area must be mobilised in the fight to defeat the Tories and the attacks of Incal *ORGANISE THE UNEMPIOYED into Unemployed *DEFEND EVERY JOB! Every redundancy, every closure must be opposed by strike action, occupation and supporting blacking action. For work sharing without loss of * TAKE UP THE FIGHT IN THE LABOUR PARTY! For socialist policies to meet the crisis: no to the alternative economic strategy; which seeks to plan' capitalism! For action now to bring down the Tories!

*BUILD. A NEW LEADERSHIP prepared to fight for these policies against the right wing and the Communist in C tho 'ens lite thi lead ent.

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← Contents of Socialist Press no. 248, 28 May 1981

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