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well. They allowed the dispute to The occupation of part of th Crosfields electrical component plant in N. London came to an last week, with 25 workers redi ant and 6 others found alternat work by management.

The deliberate isolation of th struggle by the trade union buri cracyand the local trades counc (as reported earlier in Socialist 1 enabled the employers to spin c the struggle and eventually conl the occupiers with a High Court writ and the threat of police evi ion.

Those sacked as a result of th entirely avoidable defeat includ half the factory's Joint Shop St ards Committee, among them tl convenor.

Yet whereas Marxists will see this defeat as a part of their stri to expose and remove the treacl ous rèformist leaders responsibl Workers Press, daily paper of th centrist Workers Revolutionary Party, announced it as a «Tactic Withdrawal" , and voiced not a word of criticism of the betraya in its lengthy report (by John S] cer).

Ironically this cynical piece o distortion,strongly angled towar an opportunist relationship witl section of workers still working the plant appears in the first isst of what is described as the "new Workers Press.

Sapper meeting to censure Alan Sapper (General Secretary ACTT) and ‹ the action must be fought. If th employers are able to break the claim by the lock-out on the on hand and using the right wing or the other a damaging blow will have been dealt to trade union organisation in the television inc ustry.

capitalism and the setting up of United Socialist States of Euror This is the only real alternative the Common Market.

It is when the struggle is seen this perspective that the depth ‹ the betrayal of Benn and the 'le can be clearly seen. It is in this , context that the full implication of trade union leaders joining joint organisations with Tories to 'fight' the Market can be asse ed. It is in this way that we vien Clive Jenkins sharing a platform with Enoch Powell and we get a measure of the betrayal involver in the support given to the EEC the Chinese government and the French and Italian Stalinist part The fight against the Market, 1 until June Sth and after if there no withdrawal, must be waged c these clear class lines. All talk of "national interest" and "nationa sovereignty" must be rejected. I is not simply in the interests of 1 working class in Britain to come out of the Market but would str gthen the working class of all co tries.

The Portuguese working class fired the first shots of the latest wave of the European revolutior overthrowing S0 years of fascisn A solid class vote to reject the capitalist ELC would create the conditions for further advances 1 the working class on a European scale.