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12 issues 24 issues TIM conterence Wage Control and Union Democracy on March 27th is therefore particularly well-timed to meet these new developments, and to give direction to the fight for:

*Action NOW for substantiat wage increases with cost of living clauses ensuring wages rise automatically with the cost of living as assessed by elected committees of trade unionists and houswives.

*Defend all jobs - work sharing on full pay.

*Strike action to stop all cuts isl public spending. Full backing to any section in struggle against the cuts. For a sliding scale of public spending.

INDIA... Cont'd from front p Mrs Gandhi addressing party workers Janata was another severe blow which unleashed further waves of opposition within the Congress In particular the old local Congress bosses are making increasingly insistent demands as a condition of their further support.

Gandhi was forced to delay the publication of the Congress .21 NAME.

As we go to press every single model produced by BLMC except the TRi, MG and Allegro has stopped production through strike actione There are 27 disputes taking place in Leyland, nailing the lie put round by groups like the IMG that the class struggle has gone into a lull.

The working class is asserting its independence from employers at a time when every major trade union leader is saying that we have a common interest through the social contract, "participation' or Bullock.

The major disputes are as follows:

At Castle Bromwich Body Plant 1300 paint shop workers are striking and picketing in support of 30 fellow workers. They had refused to accept alternative work in a different department - "body in white" production - when they became surplus to requirements in the paint shop.

This dispute has stopped the Mini at Longbridge, the Maxi and Princess at Cowley, and the new Rover 3500 at Jaguar.

At the Canley Triumph factory 300 paint shop workers are striking against the use of industrial engineers thus closing production in the plant.

election manifesto so that virtually all reference to her hated son Sanjay and his demagogic Youth Congress was expunged. Yet it is on Sanjay Gandhi that she has come to rely more than anything to maintain er dictatorship.

It is now evident that Sanjay's "popularity' depended more on money than on his policies, such EUROPE 6 issues.

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24 issues .14.60 At Cowley, 56 mechanical maintenance engineers started an indefinite strike last Thursday over company moves to worsen conditions of work. After this had been through procedure union officials recommended the men accept the conditions. They voted against this advice, closing Marita Toolroom workers all over Leyland have been voting, in most cases unanimously, in favour of their own unofficial committee's call for all-out strike action from Friday 18th February.

Even if other disputes were solved this would close the whole of Leyland Leyland Carsquickly because the workers include millwrights, jigfitters and some others who deal directly with production breakdowns.

Toolioom workers want separate talks over wages, claiming parity of earnings throughout Leyinad, which could raise some wages by more than £10 a week.

The claim must be supported despite the danger of corporaté bargainiag, because it contains a potential attack on the social contract.

as forced sterilisation of the poor, which have aroused bitter resentment.

So Indira Gandhi's means of political support are being torn away as her experiment in "democracy threatens to get out of control. She has already publicly compared the present situation to that Just before the emergency, thus hinting that she would not stop short of calling off the elections once again. But it now looks very unlikely that she could succeed.

The possibility that the ship is sinking is shown by the fact that even the rats are packing their bags.

The Indian Communist Party, which gave her dictatorship its craven support, have been making their sharpest criticisms to date;

and they have called on their supporters to vote for demoratac and progressive' forces. it hasn't yet let them into secret of who those forces are.

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