[Steelworkers picket in last year's strike The legal…]
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Steelworkers picket in last year's strike The legal system has been dogged by the closure of courts and the pile-up of paper work. And the flow of cash to central government from taxation has dropped to a trickle.
Many of these actions have been partial and temporary — carried out as part of a wave of militancy that has swept through the civil service unions. But the implications are widereaching.
Many civil servants bemoan the fact that they had no industrial muscle to bring to bear against the Government. Yet the fact is that seldom before has a group of workers had such capacity to take action striking right at the nerve centres of the capitalist state machine.
The extension of trade unionism into the bureaucracy of the state poses new ernment economically.
Indeed, the potential power of the civil service unions is far greater than has 'been' shown so far, since the selective action that has been imposed has enabled the armed forces and non-union members to focus their strike-breaking efforts on particular operations. An all-out stoppage would pose far greater problems to the