Workers Socialist League

Socialist Press, Trotskyism Today and the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee, 1975–1984

[SOCIALIST Send to: Socialist Press, 31, Dartmouth Park…]

Socialist Press no. 88, 22 February 1978 · scan p. 10 · about 209 words

Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →

Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: expect misread words, and now and then a caption or a line from a neighbouring story. For anything you quote, read the scan.

Scan page 10

SOCIALIST Send to: Socialist Press, 31, Dartmouth Park Name..

Address NUPE leader Fisher ships of the public sector unions pledge themselves to call area-wide strike action in response to any attempt to close Bethnal Green.

The fight for this policy, which involves the political mobilisation of the strength of the working class and puts the union leaders, who have done nothing but talk against the cuts on the spot is the next step in the, fight to prepare the defence of the health service.

PRESS issues issues issues issues I would like In the wake of the decision by stewards representing Shell tanker drivers to abandon their £90 a week pay claim, BP stewards have, as expected, voted to follow suit.

The meeting last Wednes day was much more evenly divided than that of the Shell stewards-splitting 32-28 in favour of a reworded manage.

ment offer.

The collapse of the pay struggle by this enormously powerful section of worker: is one of the repurcussions o the TUC betrayal of the fire men's strike combined witl the lack of an unofficia leadership capable of fightin the trade union bureaucracy. £1.10 €2.20 . £5.50 £10.00 (Overseas rates: write for details). issues. I enclose Socialist Press, 31, Dartmouth London NW5 1HR

← Contents of Socialist Press no. 88, 22 February 1978