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£3,000 FUND Yet another encouraging fortnight for the Special Fund with a further £327.68 to add to our total. With a few days to go to the deadline, we have now reached £2644.87 out of our target of £3,000, leaving us just £355.13 to raise.

Now that the date for launching the weekly Socialist Press' has been named, let us have one last push to collect Donations received during the last two weeks include: Nuneaton £8.18; CH £3; Hackney £5; Posters £5; East London £17.50; PL £10; Carworkers £89.50; Leeds £34; Oxford £59.80; Sheffield £30; PL £45; Aylesbury £7.50; BRITAIN 6 issues 12 issues 24 issues BRITISH LEYLAND have found a new ally in their bid to stamp out individual plant bargaining after November 1.

He is Roy Fraser-once notorious as the leader of the Leyland Toolroom strike which clashed with the rigid straightjacket of Phase 2 earlier this year.

Now Fraser and the toolroom committee have called a new strike from October 28-the aim being to pressure Leyland into proceeding with this proposed corporate bargaining structure.

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This clashes with the aim of TGWU leaders-to bring about area rather than corporation-wide And both plans conflict with the feeling. on the shop floorwhich is bitterly opposed to the end of plant bargaining.

Hugh Scanlon-who during the strike agreed that the 3,000 toolmakers be sacked by Leyland -has now weighed in to back Fraser.

Whatever comes out of new talks between Scanlon and Jones, workers will need to fight to defend plant bargaining.

France's popular front-the Union of the Left-is now in the throes of its worst crisis since its formation five years ago.

The crisis could, conceivably, lead to the break up of the Union.

Talks between the leaders of the political groups which comprise the Union-the Socialist Party (SP), the Communist Party (CP) and the bourgeois Radicals-ended in deadlock last week, with no agreement reached on the front's common This failure further exacerbates the crisis engendered on September 14 when Radical leader, Robert Fabre, stormed out of the first round of talks accusing the CP of "intransigence"

The ostensible sticking point in the negotiations has been the CP proposal that the original (1972) programme of the Union, which called for the nationalisation of the country's nine biggest industrial groups as well as the banking and financial sectors, should be extended to include all subsidiaries of these groups.

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fraser Standing behind these apparently doctrinal differences, however, is a sordid reality of electoral politicking.

The Radicals staged the walkout as a way of focussing national attention on themselves and their role in the popular front.

FORMAL GUARANTEES Their participation in the Union is a formal guarantee to the bourgeoisie that the working class's own parties are willing to tailor working class demands to suit French capitalism.

Fabre's walkout is a demonstrative reminder to the French bourgeoisie that it is their interests that he represents and for which he is fighting. As such it is a thinlyveiled call for middle class support in next Spring's legislative elections.

But the CP have also had to play to their working class base-hence the extended list of companies to be nationalised and the proposed increase in the minimum wage from 2,200 to 2,400 francs, as well as their apparent "intransigent" opposition to the Radicals' demands.

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