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claim it was "accepted" by the working class.

Such a huge cut in living standards has been "accepted"

back. At every level the bureaucracy has blocked action.

In these ways the leaderships treat the views and interests of members with growing contempt.

None of the TUC's negotiating committee has the slightest mandate for the agreements they are now trying to make in the name of millions of workers.

Even when union conferences have voted in favour of wage control, as the T&Gwo conterence did last year, they have attached conditions about increasing social services and measures to reduce unemployment.

Yet union leaders are again ready to do a deal to cut wages with a government whose policies have enormously increased unemployment and cut social services, and whose declared aim is to cut them much further.

The only way to fight for the independent interests of the working class is to reject all forms of "social contract' ', conditional or unconditional.

The growing resistance in the labour movement to wage control must be built into an all-out fight to end all talks about wages between unions and government.

Trade unionists should campaign urgently for the recall of emergency union conferences to call to account these leaders and to adopt a programme - including a sliding scale of wages and social expenditure and work sharing on full pay - which can defend workers against inflation and unemployment.

When the Publication Fund officially closed on May Ist we had received a further £36.80, making a grand total of £530.80. With more money stil on its way to us, we have acheived a very satisfactory conclusion to the Fund.

Together with an encouraging response to our first book The Battle for Trotskyism this means we can now proceed to publish over the coming months a series of books and pamphlets dealing with various aspects of the current political situation as well as the history of the Trotskyist movement.

In order to further develop the work of the WSL the Monthiy Development Fund which members and supporters have been fighting to collect alongside the Publication Fund, will now be raised to £600 a month.

It important that members, supporters and readers immediately pitch into the struggle to raise this sum, starting with the May Fund.

All donations should be sent to: WSL Monthly Development Fund, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NWS IHR.

RULE 14 CAMDEN TRADES COUNCIL DEFENCE COMMITTEE PUBLIC MEETING Friday 7th May at 7.30pm Small Hall, Conway Hall Red Lion Square, London Arias Navarro ced to long periods of imprisonment.

Fraga is still, however, trying to drive a wedge through the Democratic Coordination by paparas from the dalets ing Christian Democrats.

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The Congress showed up a significant division in the UGT (which claims 20,000 members) between . supporters of the political line of Felipe Gonzalez and the leadership of the PSOE and an opposition, centred in Madrid, critical of the class-collaborationist policies of the Gonzalez leadership.

•Gonzalez and UGT Secretary General Nicolas Redondo carried the Congress, but not by a huge margin. In spite of declarations that the union should be "independent" of political parties, the major posts were all kept in the hands of members of the PSOE The Gonzalez leadership like theStalinists have condemned Arias' latest policy speech.

But both parties have reacted with bewilderment to the growth of repression; their emphasis on peaceful struggle amounts to an attempt to disarm the Spanish working class. But the militancy of workers on May Ist shows that that will be a hard thing to do.

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