Cp Attacks Spanish Strike
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WSL MEETINGS: prices.
But, with the effect of the tax system, this means that living standards would fall continuously for the next four years.
And that, of course, means that the Labour government and the TUC leaders casually work on The assumption of long-term continued state control of wage "FREE BARGAINING"
So much for Jones' talk of a "controlled return' to free collective bargaining! Both he and the TUC leaders are well aware this could only occur if fought for by the unions against the government. Such a fight they have no intention of carrying out.
Such gatherings as this meeting of Neddy emphasise once again the urgency of throwing out the TUC and Labour government leaders along with all the class collaborationist treachery they represent.
24.60 The 3-month old strike at Motor Iberica in Barcelona is holding out against the bosses, the police and the Spanish Communist Party.
The bosses have refused the workers demands for a large increase to cover inflation and the reinstatement of workers sacked for militancy.
Scab workers have been brought in and threatening letters sent to the strikers.
The police have been enforcing the anti-picketing law; they have smashed the doors of a church to disperse a 3-week solidarity HULL ursday September 2nd Hull Central Library 7:30pm inday September Prince of Wale Division St. 7.30pm LEEDS Thursday August 26th Tracos Council Club 7.30pm 1MTD Drintad har Doartownt occupation by wives of the strikers.
According to the Guardian a leading. Communist Party organiser of the illegal Workers' Commissions in Barcelon dismisses the strike as a "romantic exercise" saying "I sympathise with them but I cannot support them."
This scandalous attitude is entirely in line with the CP's rejection of the demands of the left to convert the Workers' Commissions into a real trade union organisation, and with its preparations to negotiate a deal with the fascist government. (See NEWCASTLE Friday August 27tl Bridge Hotel High Level Bridge 7.30pm COVENTRY esday 25th A eartford Tave:
Junction St. 7.30pm. Thursday 26th A 'ast Oxford Comn Cowley Rd. 7.30pm.
LONDON
Struggle for Socialism in Spain Kenilworth Hotel 97, Great Russell St., WC1 Friday 13th August at 7.30p