Socialist Press no. 212

POLAND: EXTEND THE

STRIKE COMMITTEES

OVERTHROW

THE BUREAUCRACY

SOCIALIST

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 212 * 27 August 1980 * 20p Affiliated to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee The Polish Stalinist bureaucracy nas made a major move to try and end the mass movement that is threatening to topple it.

They have climbed down in une race or ine wike movemen but made only cosmetic changes. They had to meet the United Strike Com- mittee out ast week unev nou only met them but admitted that the strikes had their roots m genume grievances. But reaction of the the Walesa state: leadership; its desire to appear to make major changes; goats for the bureaucrats' "anti- political" campaign. shows us weakness mune race of determined work in declass class conspiracy to opposition. Although present this as the victory the and still hopetul of regaining the workers have fought for. initiative the bureaucracy is on presents capitalist press The the run. IT unIs wav on DurDo se the most hated bureau- The capitalist class are deter- crats have been removed. Prime mined defend the Polish against our caucialy Illass increased the meat prices, the as the movement recent Joans head of TV and radio, the head have shown, including a joint of the official trade unions and the director of planning (sic).

Secret ballots Party leader Edvard Gierek has promised secret ballots in trade elections union of investments an cur tamell cluzens to nave a bigger say in running the country. All of these completely cosmetic precisely because the aone oy une oureaucracy WinG decided which ministers went? The bureaucrats did, Who runs the save themselves. elections? lauc union bureaucrats who decides what is to be curtailed? Bureau- crats do! To offer the workers a say unev shoule run unt stater tre doing in tada the workers are doing Gdansk today. une amm is to conime the Polish working class to reforms and the solution of the overthrow of the burcaucracy. Is WHY still

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members prison-in order to prevent the danger of outside forces. This is despite the fact that the KOR themselves have a reformist per- They the scape- spective. one last week between British, American and Russian banks. As always une trade umon bureau: cracy in Britain feel the same as This is why the capitalists. rUC is continuing with its visit to rolane al une mvilauor ol the omicia trade unions Polish workers should learn history and not be fooled from this conspiracy. Extend the strikes and strike committees.

'Support' Workers capitalist not be countries must also fooled by the reaction of imper- 1a11S10 Its 'support' for the strikers is a cover for its fear of the mass The cautious approach carte anal .Loe fact that Thatcher has not her mouth on the subject are testimony that The capitalists like to see the bureaucracy embarrassed. They * Gierek do not want to see the bureau- cracy overthrown by a mass of workers which movement offers nothing Capitalist the reason Tor. The loans to massive West German Poland That is the reason for their statements that the strikes are the internal affairs of Poland.

They are not internal but inter- national Polish strikers' meeting in Gdansk Exclusive BL secret 'no strike' plan Page 11 The attempts to portray the speakers to all sections of the shipyard" Church on the same side as the workers is aso a le or course he aso reportea no arunK , unprincipled atti- enness among the thousands of and

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plete involvement to the Church has caused it to strengunen its ario ums s a cenume mass anu- But already Church leaders bureaucratic movement that is have used their pulpits inside ing and outside the occupations to point. What is happening it Gdansk is the same throughout cemano - moderaton

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euphemism cover the Baltic coast. The support for sides -a the fact that they to want the strikers is nationwide and is the Polish Stalinists. keep European countries as reports of power u the alternative is that they are the strikes in Romania have shown. working class It is necessary to spread the As the United Strike Com- strikes and through that the mittee in Gdansk has been press- United Strike Committees, ing for more and more reforms the throughout country This from bureaucracy would be the basis for a genuine hing more than a trade dictatorship of the proletariat been ILse

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something more Already this has taken place in union body. the northere

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representatives from mittee So viet-type body Sczeczin and Elblag have met with the

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committee Because the Stalinist bureau- first took a hard line, Gdansk. стасу turned to toe overth of the movement must the strikers, sprcaulng •une surikes were lorced into takıng bureaucracy decisions about the running the United anu society. That turned the United sure Committees turned into the government of Poland, with genuinely anti-bureaucratic type body. This is particularly the case as it broadened its base Here the words of the support sections of the intelligentsia and outstanding leader of the move of the peasantry ment Lech Walesa show Strike limitations. Walesa was sacked The Unitec Commit- from the shipyards four vear Lee une Onio vare decides whether the trains run, earlier this a20 services one of the first Month as allowed demands of the strike. It is to function and who him the masses look. In front runs tem. nerduy uney are ol mass strike delegate meetings as a government government representatives are What has developed is a form of all greeted with silence and he dual side the power, on one is cheered. ourcaucracy. taking accsons u He is reported as saying is unable to implement, on the in response to the government's other side the United Strike climbdown: Committee. We go on striking. I am not hese are the words a politician and I do not care from reporter 1 an political developments. Bulletin' Intormation am interested in The sniovare at a strike commit.

unions. But these changes are a tee meeting victory for us" delegate from a fishin absolutely necessary firm is just taking the floor and that these workers struggling for asking for gas. A boatful of fish demo-

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El Salvador-the war imperialism Solidarity shuts French ports SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 27 August 1980 "The United States could allow another never if this Nicaragua, even meant using the most repre- hensible methods". Zbignew Brzezinski 1979 moderate' tactories killed El Salvador is at war. It is ago a war that was one both left and declared by ignored right but remains Dec. of the throughout

THOSE

world since it has none of of the the clamour armed forces. Nicaraguan insurrection, 1980 the international of

1UIC

impact of Cuba or the mass and stalinists resion. deployment of troops seen in Vietnam.

FAPU/UDN

as the it seems likely thal imperialist deepens and the multary activity of will left escalates the Spate reoruary. least acquire some of inese the Feb. 26.

CRM

charactessin Revolutionary Government: shadow of Afghanistan and iran this bitter struggle has gone unheralded. by Guardia Nacional. Brzezinski. has been as good March 5. the as his word; the

COSL

Salvadorean masses Tote this yeat is day rate of day. The death 4,000 and the logistical experts of the local ruling class reckon "the optimum kill-rate for Dolle task they can achieve only with the direction and assistance of the Pentagon.

Battleground Nicaragua has ised The did Cuba 20 years ago; reeling of the over- throw of Somoza and the wave of mass mobilisations in the rest Centra transformed Salvador for the into the battieground region. The campaign being by the Salvadorean left will be very much harsher than that in Nicaragua, of petty bourgeois certainly then lauralsi terms une capacity of the enemy and the international impact. EI vereal 101 Salvador will rip apart Central America, threaten the key prize and set- MeXico to the interests ol DacK poly to the size and apparent of this tiny significance repubnc. Deceptive already before the left has. The marines are Alongside there, certaily over a hundred and possibly as many as "protect the embassy Policia professionalise the armed forces. However the numbers are

KARAN

ate they the were deceptive (as of Guatemala and Honduras.

early stages Vietnam, 101 although they are a formidable (Their and force intelligence no means represent the suspected Lucy us firmed by the scope of the imperialist military foreign commitment. This in the rapid suprately more accurately reflected ing salvadorcan ummolls) aid- The imperialist $10.3 millions military 62% of total US military El from 1950-79,

MUSICI

handed over in just six months.

the Pentagon has Moreover internationalised the war long With all the jingoistic hou-ha surrounding the media coverage their fishermen's strike • WIl French and blockade, the basic existence. issues have been obscured.

What began dispute between Unprecedented solidarity has all the channel, closed has Normandy, Britan dra Neult- unleashing erranean orts and created political crisis for the prolongeu rena coverine. ing class Barre government.

The demands of the strikers The sailors from straightforward enough: 30 are government francs boulogne were assistance in Huustly, wage ports. rises; an increase in the price of fish line with rising costs; and a decrease in their The It is the latter demand which drivers the fish has united the workers on the boats and those who fishing cannot afford to lose Oct. 15. Colonels oust dictator Romero.

Oct 16 US State Department declares new regime is 'centrist anc offers military ct. 18. CP calls for 'popular understanding' with junta; mass organ ations (BPR/FAPU/LP-28) denounce coup as a 'ploy'. 195 killed over 400 wounded by army in two weeks Noverber. Mass organisations occupy ministries and embassies and launch selective strikes for wage increases, price controls Rightists group around capitalist organisation ANEP to call against Dec. 31. Civilians in junta demand that it take direct control of the Jan. 3. Army rejects civilian politicians' demand: Social Democrats Jan. 10. Guerin (LAN/S Guerrillas (FPL/FARN/PCS) and mass organisations (BPR/ respectively) and LP-28 create Coordinadora Revolu- , CRM demonstration to mark 48th anniversary of 1932 uprising; 250,000 march; 67 killed , 250 wounded. occupations by ERP and of ministry/embassy FARN guerrillas, increased rural actions by FPL publishes Programmatic. Platform of Democratic March 1. Chacon (BPR) and Argueta (Lr-Zo) rereased arter capture 'Moderate' Christian Democrats leave junta in protest at National Guard stand over wounded prisoners after the March strike set up late last year and 'tested' the three official in the assault' on the US base Guantanamo on the coast of wings of the repressive forces- the the phecide Haciend- As a fall-back the US has de Hacienda- and the right wing vigilantes of formally suggested the use of an be found the force from the intervention of American Israeli-trained and armed troops States, cal moat nas so deaf ears since even that back presence long those states the junta (Venezuela, Colombia reccally cisco very and a van costa ca de documents and money Panama) have no desire to pla on the corpses of soldiers wear- the Tole of "seapoys the following testimony strated that this unholy alliance, which from a seventy year-old peasant 50,000 gives an idea of the new 'com- least operations' The work. troops, will avold ine Iletta omea tional embarrassment of sending events he relates occured a urlig the Rapid Development Force the offensive of 13-16 May and small scrimo and save to eeke out an the industria small fishermen of Boulogne and their succeeded the first major wave strike action against the viciously anti-work- Etaples in the first to give blockading Lne 'he dockers of the tw lain unions the CGT and CFD their fishermen killing fish as long as the dispute lasts.

blocked who profits, transport protest their approaches to Calais in inland. after break through employers had railed against the attempts to March 6. State of siege declared.

March 7. Agrarian reform announced; 800 government agronomists strike. March 8. ERP join CRM; military invasion in Chalatenango 24 hour general strike closes 200 factories; 2 million March 17. participate in uni action March 24. Archbishop Romero assassinated.

March 27. Further junta resignations; only extreme right Christian Democrats reliam March 30. 100 killed, 500 wounded at Romero's funeral.

April. US manoeuvres in Caribbean April 4. Formation of Democratic Front of Salvador (FDS) by petty bourgeois groups, unaffiliated unions and bourgeois opposition Democratic Revolutionary Front (FDR) by April 18. Formation FDS and CRM-100,000 attend rally by • decoy Honerto bAouisson Abortive coup Colonel Majano as army commander; succeeos in ousting May 14-16. Some di eneral be by all orera.

Some 600 people killed by Salvadorean and Honduran troops in Chalatenango department.

movement grows-40,000 out, including May Groan

SETIKE

ERP/FARN/FPL/PCS

unite military June Junta and FDR send missions to commanes ments; FDR receives backing of Second Internationa June 24. 48-hour general strike paralyses San Salvador and majo ities; over 300 bodies found in , university after military attack July 10. FARN take over San Miguel, third city, for July 30. Massive antiquerril: oration Aguilares; 10,000 'evacuated'; army admits heavy casualties. By end of month death toll for 1980 well over 3,000). during which Salvadorean and slaughtered troops Honduran 25 people died over ouu peopie "I live in El Jicaro, canton of jumped into little children Chalatenango. On Tuesday May 3 at around 7 • am I had I gone hour later hiding place down my

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from the guard, the soldiers and by

OUI

ORDEN

and began to heli herded an olive-green saw with rifle copter over

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fluts. 'Moments later a large con of national essards, tingent and members soldiers set free ORDEN-I should around say 900-approached remaining in custody we wert attacked from all sides, two hel copters fired on us from the ai "Sure enough, and the cer pocked ally menas of escape. Hassaciou remained prisoner". "The only possibility was to runways to stop the operators. The fishermen negotiate local

CFDT

steward several thousand winere called for. The main demonstration in will Le Le Theule Tor orie with the blockade himset alool KecO And the small farmers near with him! Le Touquet airport threatened Page 3 This barbarism goes under name th arial lall reform' introduced MarCI heralded by the appearance and numbers large Labour 10!

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Development (AIFLD) staff.

These include Roy Proster- similar

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'Land of the Tiller pacicato!. programme in the early 1960s- Prosterman and his iriend.

have taken over the top two San the 10U1S , armed with eraton Hote a hundreds thousands dollars direct telephone and Ime to the high command, are workine i earnest since the introduction It is of this reform' that the escala- rose to fighting present lever aning distribution of and the precou simply sub- Фрегаола oligarchy European govern- divided them estates by formall registering amieren land in the names of members thereby avoid of their families several hours. ing exceedne Perquin and In any case 800 government agronomists have been on strike all pass putting paid to any chance of implementation. Large the fixed-wave issued walkie-talkies have been found in the possession of mem- bers of ORDEN who, unsurpris ingly, are oftne taking over that land which is being expropria- ted. repression has risen still

ISC.

further. In last large numbers of troops were drafted into the regions around Perquin to be an attempt to wipe out a force of the FPL. How major reported many casualties ana lanca lo call i victore ability of the FARN to city of San Miguel take over albeit onlv for a lew hours and the remarkable takeover by the

ERP

parts of Morazon of large province on 14 August suggest i qualitative stepping up guerrilla actions. Terrain These , however, still remain Salvadorean which terrain elevel prohibits the holding of libera- ted zones before the final insur- apparently rectionary push *prolonged peoples waI which has had the effect of leav large sectors vulnerable to reprisal Dea dully flee across the River Sumpul to ana lelt tnousanas or strikul workers without clear political Honduras. In this attack at least objectives or the means of self.

wnen the water saw defence. The immediate danger is that swallowed the masses. harried with cease- up in the strong current... Half less repression and lacking con- the authorities told us to return to crete examples of success, WIl swimming back become demoralised and with- draw from the struggle. стос The mve tude wale wort tactical and strategic Te butts kod nearly eaten kicken ano beater 1 lest shortcomings arise from the military position; digramme of the directly the "At 5 p.m. the oldest, some politics and of the women and children were some 25 people left in El Salvador A second article will take up were this question in detail and show mates to us we! the petty we heard a loud volley of shots.

how the betrayals ol the soldiers bourgeois Nicaragua threaten to be those who repeated in El Salvador. However it was his proposals to the trawler employers which sparked off the strike wave. He that well declared park their tractors on the Ilas extra flight aware of the deficiencies oi the planned by the Englis old French vessels in Come! . with Norwegian Japanese and Soviet ships. He has offered refuse deals. "It is a "increases in efficiency' conflict which can only have Severat employers of cours took this to mean giving them a front people. Every- ticence to sack. It was tne reauc tion in hours of work of the crews that provoked the strike slogan the in Boulogne. on It is this underlying fear of was Bologne and hatred of unemployment Theule! 3UC. well as the Tne viniste me coverel of has tried i to recite DOla has tried caton tal of sickie wiped solidarity within trom class for dispute as having nothing to do the Frenc those involved in struggle.

NUPE MEMBERSHIP: ANOTHER YEAR

OLDER AND DEEPER IN DEBT

Bidwell fined by defenders Page 4 Police 'armies' -growth It is now a year since industry

NUPE

members received any information from their national office on how to fight the cuts. 12,000 A strong In a circular headed Action army of 'special' police the Cuts in Public Against last August Alan with training in riot saveluiluic : EC risser C ane tne anetione• control exists in now the use of working to rule, Britain. refusing extra workloads, aemonsuralons, as ureci further 12,000 are action' strengthen the now trained in the use of position of the negotiators firearms-according the headed 'Strike report trom state Kesearch.

ActIon. nowevel, Just under half the forces wrote the following. "In a situation where public in the countrv-24 out of expenditure severe 52-had special squads and/or pro- the Dressule, CAlCIve modeled on Special Patrol Group. The research producie t y perue ne also discovered provide another 28 forces with emplovers with the savings the! 'public support units' which are seeking. But circumstances may industrial dis- are usea full scale strike putes and demonstrations.

demonstrate

ACTION

altie 'Civil defence' Union's determination to safe- guard members' interests.

PSUs were set "In such situations the strike 1974, supposedly to act as »cuon mus be «remy oro. ised so that it has the maximum 'civil defence' after a im pact and must be conducted lucitai wai. within

UIEEC

lact peacetime train- require UMON's Kiles which ing' has revealed that they the sanction of the EC." are trained to create CEnCI noiocausls on pickel 'Circumstances' lines. During the NF march in If the circumstances wartant.

Leicester in April 1979 20 ing all-out action have forces their PSUs to SCIlL not arisen in the year since this make up the 5,000 police covIce ws us cal contingent. to assess just what the circum- Nine forces have special- Fisher stances that ised firearms units and 10% auulne lo. Obviously the demolition of of all police receive fire- the school meals service is not arms training. The issuing of these 'circumstances', by 800% Irearms

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ПОГ

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t no usainu between 1970 and 1979, non-teaching jobs in schools last firearms were issued Nor the WIlCI on 8,374 occasions. (136 nurses provision lui sul y even this tigure does not alone.)

OOSLS

•NOtllezalll allow for protection of nor the hospitals cuts (3.000 fewer beds in Greater London), Vifs and guarding convoys nor the ending of direct works *State Research Bulletin No. ano le wno ewe reoracenen rolana streel. public employees with London W1. Price 50p. private contracts. of fascists were fined f40 each and Bidwell is rerusing 1o pay his fine although he expects it to be paid for him. Bidwell, George Guy of the

TUC

General Council, Alex the CSEU and Roger rerry oi Butler of the AUEW SooKe Le the meeting on May 14 as part the TUC's Day of Action. ¡ney were aceuea lo lave vce.

n rex banned but religious meetings in the park. Court actions At a time wnen tney are making some the most in the country the Bidwell savake buts Ealing Council conne orenar eu SoCKU is the tens of thousands of pounds on Tory council that insisted court actions to prevent labour that the fascist NF had the no vernent mceluies. right to free speech and a e N cavou ole right to free speech than trade in Southall Town meeting eyes of these unionists the Hall. Tory "democrats" This of the was, w cl so thich Blaio Peach lias led meeting

NUPE

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•was muraerea. Fined

BACKS

After unsuccessfully trying get

OCCUPATION

arade . Ini0n

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Southall Park banned in the High Courts the council has now NUPE has given official su cceeced bin cetteme LaDolu Mr for Southall Syd Bidwell and backing to an occupation!

three trade union leaders fined Laundry workers at the for addressing it Gwent Hospital in Koval This is desnite the fact that South Wales are occupying hotan ant por po and tad sper- intendant parks sinen given

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the hospital grounds. They verbal permission for the rally are protesting that the new une connen tenseo DermIs- sion only five days before the linen room, in the hospital and long after it had meeting basement is hot and dark.

been widely advertised. Alan Fisher addressing May Day rally two years ago circumstances The list that have arisen attacking NUPE members and jobs endless but it is still not enough a o l sed sulie action *to demonstrate Ine unions' determination safe- guard members' interests' so what is tne Nort leauer- ship doing in fighting the Tory attacks? Whatever it is it's costing -they've just asked them more- telling 101 a 100 suos uli case. m em ver o aool l chame which starts: letter from Alan Fisher You wkowirom vou experience in balancing own your household budget just how mucn une • Cos Hs gone up over the last few years."

and ends: Police defend "free speech" for fascists eco nomic the present crisis will unemolo vmem ane prices rising and the government intent on cutting public services down allu

DUDII

to use ais pol its tuniun ese ds defend members' interests. Your union Conttiout1on The enables it to do that job With best wishes Y ours fraternally 'Alan Fisher." The membership of NUPE be convinced that have yet

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•l even lou d week eacn would enable the union leader- ship protect interests. after all, does this money go!ll s ooviousiy ПO T being drained out of NUPE's coffers by strike -with their pas pay

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strikes for example of selective SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 27 August 1980 one-day strikes which didn't than to establish a social services quamy une suriers lor a snglf day nurser—a local dutnori penny, and a national levy to not state funded but what paid for by

NUPE!

Does this cover strike pay was needed. reflect the aliuls Glossy posters Nurt leadersnip over creating more nursery provision - concern certainly not reflectec Admittedly high and wages their

NUPE

castul for bay act case muT erv PIO VIsIon as ume su times must take their toll a: cut nursery schools, classes and must producing staff grows. posters of the

TUC

Vat Campaign Economic Abandoned Social Advance but the remain- ing from There has not been single attempt by r the leader ship members must wus uciaule to organise for their defence an even aler Nort s laige admin istrative costs. doandoncl

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struggles that have taken place.

there waiting to

NUPE

When of the be used as strike pay when the members are trying to fight the CreStaCes amse Or is NUPE looking around secto] business sponsorship and charity for projects to spend some of its funds state he NUPE

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found one the decision to sasnca

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give £80,000 leadership steps in and give its own little contribution Council borougt . Lilal What now s woe suts ea onier weaicilld old peoples And just have they cctoois donated this money, none other homes are shut down!

WOMEN MUST

Election

WAIT-TUC

inquiry The General Council of the TUC has shown An inquiry has been itself as ready as ever to called the Boiler.

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resist women's rights. makers' Presidential elec- The Women's TUC had tions. called for The poll result was women the General Youncil of the TUC agaenst announced bv LuJ4 lo yus votes tor Jimm the present, Iwo al Murray over Broad Left candi reflect the rapid growth in Barry Williams. women trade union Murray, of the Calllal members. General Counci was confiden After of winning by a big majority due consideration the and narrow and bearing in mind their vote • came • as a big desire to hang on to their SuL DIs O li now the executive has own seats a bit longer the the postponed General Council has agreed result while it investigates alle- to five women's seats-and ¡gatons or voring ureguaries 1981 before The allegations, proven, aelay untll this is implemented. are thought to affect the result.

Don't spoil the show! So. Dear Socialist Press I think that the film reviews seen "Zombies' afte caa vlo reading Comrade Bush's review it considerably can only ing and can provldf sot y light relief the more ố Haan 'heavy" in the paper. the film knowing exactly which articles of ou heroes were going nere no wever. C01ll- survive to the end plaint 1 feel moved to make I hope future reviewers will about them bear point in mind least two recent attempt give • us a review reviews, "Zombies Strikes CRack tne emm wardout ever ever have given away the thing that happens in it reviewers Yours fraternally Comrade endings of the tim. Louis B. Mayer Eagleton actually seenned take a perverse pleasure in doing

CASTLEREAGH FROM

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 27 August 1980 On the evening of Friday August 8 l attended an open: Republican air Irish Socialist Party (IRSP) meet- ing on political status in the Markets area of Belfast. address the 1 was askea to someone who had meeting just come from Britain for the weekends It soon became clear that the intended to keep a close Gilly They drove around in a jeep taking photographs. I spoke on developments in Britain; the fate of Tameside and Edinburgh and ana lalk file pressure in the Labour Party for a discussion on Ireland.

expressed Caciason solidarity for the struggle of the Irish people against the British governelt. Immediately after the meet- ing our car was stopped by the Ulster Constabulary

(RUC).

Having been comrades and were arrested by ' British army. 'peace taken to We in- Grand appropriately Tallicu Central Hotel ваттаск. building was an hotel before its army). by the •purchase forcibly photograpned allu hau details such as the colour of my weight noted. and eyes. the was remsee a suiciul vi right to make a telephone call.

Short lived At 10.15 p.m. I was released.

My satisiacton was Howeve short lived. I was immediately the other rearrested Section Il Act the Emergency

TO VISION

and to Castlereagh. we from 10.15 were detained here to 12.30 p.m. on Hт109V night Monday afternoon. protest against my detention I went on hunger sure The kuc took my personal such as watch and possessions money and then locked me in a "Police knew NF route" Confirmation that the police knew the National Front take march was to in Nuneaton while place they were being banned in five other towns has come from fascists. them- the selves. national Martin webster activities organiser for the NF plans had been drawn said that and route maps sent

COTT

TO laSHSLS parts of the country. for Nuneaton, Labour Huckfield-who Besit ports legal bans as a solution io fascist marches-has written of the Chief Constable west Midlands ronce aemanu- ing an explanation. About 2,000 police turned protect the up in Nuneaton to march and succeeded in keep bay those anti-fascists ing at who managed to get past police checks to uv aru suo i. outside Police roadbioCkS Leamington-where the anti- fascists had gathered-and out- ve uncaon. suzzest d'vale fully planned ропсе ореганоп which they had received for adequate notice of the fascists' real plans. • 4T don't Huckfield said: they were all touring believe waiting wallics find out where it would take place" The net result of the ban ha labour been movement mates 11Ve while permitting LIne march-a fact now fascists to being ignored by lefts and the called Ant1-Naz1 League wno for the ban.

THE INSIDE!

had 'Even the writing on the walls 'small cell. grey windows, two small grills which seemed designea to ada to one s no air, a bed ›sychological disorientation and allowed in little or comment as followed i isolation. and chair. The bed was supplied with paper sheets and pillow one from dated The ame isone vasus entered the months later. All this As no sunlight compounded my dejection and was impossible to judge cell it Time the time accurately. cense circumstances I was passed extremely slowly. In thesi In was interviewed five confinement, held sultary the interrogations with absolutely no During contact will LIeS prisoners throughout my plain other clothed guaranis asked about exercise peace made numerous threats. stay. When One interviewer • was tola that i coula exercise in my cell. come are statue The Agony and the Ecstacy 'Callous exploitation' by Trotskyists

HOW MOLES

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We'll strike for year' By DAVID SHEARS in Bonn DOLAND'S strikers refused to be intimidated yester.

day by the detention of prominent dissidents in Tarsaw the previous night. Far from checking the t-in stoppages which have brought the nation to the rink of chaos, the security crackdown had the opposite effect. Northern Ireland marchers protest against another state frame-up earlier this month admitted that ver Day membership of the INLA and Could away have six Kesh for remand was too that Wou into the corridor cameras, there were and One of the results of the Bennett Report fitting of cameras in was the I was threatened with being a loyalist area on my where I was informed reicas would be torn apart

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'The paper (Glos Szcze- appealed the cinski) strikers to think of children about to start a new school term and of families needing food, and to permit that such basic foods were satis- fied." "Television presented only 'ordinary some workers' speaking about the losses caused by the strikes in the harbours" Daily Telegraph "A union leader bitterly the left attacked wing Workers Party Socialist "callous yesterday for exploitation' of an indus- trial dispute" Daily Mail The Polish press has been slow off the mark but is learning business of ignoring

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strikes is elementary first grade stuff now only - storious national press as a last resort. Western technology is how Te de bo a the Polish ever "advisers have MacKs. been airlifted into strike-bounc areas ostensibly to bring back reports of the great upheaval.

Page 5 We reprint here an account by Francis Barry of his arrest, detention and interrogation following his participation in an open-air meeting called by the IRSP in Belfast.

future landlord employer would be informed of my activities During course of my finger- also Wa printed and again photographed I was repeatedly questioner about membership of left organ and associa- I bllal tion witn tions. Questions were also asked attitude about and statelet the RUC. The repeatedly Dolll was made that my arrest and subse quent detention was aue not t my presence in the six counties association with but figure Alll expression of solidarity with the struggle of the Irish people.

Several things flow from the experience or orners wil harassed during their visit to the those who counties Unnecessary It is important that all who to Northern Ireland be travel their legal rights. well versed in They what cucs tions they the o blay dose, hou and those Illa may be detained I01 long tney and what stage they CaTE entitled • solicitor. Lack see a can result being giece unnecessary away and unneces physiological distress Threats also made sal. inhabi- Discussion will about my relurn to Billain. Une tants of west belast • maKes 1 clear that the harassment meted deport eve days detainer out to some of us in Belfast wa Southern smal taste of th mere a ver manner in which the army con The interviewer 1oo me he treats the people of would be waiting for me when I must experience boat and would get Our got oft the thererore strenginen our resolve me during the seven days build anti-imperialist Others concentrated on my movement in Britain committed fate when to the immediate withdrawal of . My name and othe colchester troops from Ireland. details would passed squaddies in this garrison town Francis Barry 16.8.80 It was also threatened that my the Polish positions strikes are only just beginning Secretly they are giving night classe to Pot be Journalister to emerge : cannot be long before the While the news pages feature praise the strikers Polish begin continue to pIes. less enthusiasm appeals from wives and mother (though with for the strike to finish than tney praise tne dissidents Meanwhile the Polish strikers the editorial columns have taken a decidedly luké warm line.

was the first The Telegraph the Daily Tele- the dick, er of the moditos strike this dangers modifyin graph reported a Daily Mai way? their demands. "Poland's strikers refused to stressing the need to be intimidated yesterday rain, hundreds increased aid for Poland as Despite has the • right wing Now maga strikers cheered aid of announcement that yet anothe douned tools enterprise had taking the industrial Without a blush the honest advising its readers that issues of these papers are recor ding with pleasure the fact that sent change to embarrass the Soviet Frenc navy was the not enough to Union hreak the fishermen's blockade stabilise Poland at Fos-sur-Mer and the savage : of CPSA General Secre- The truth is known in Fleet sore tsapictures of the Pope tary, Kat in mole there Britain is "callous nothing action, in for them mn a dete mined move to overthrow the by Trotskyists'. bureaucracy in Poland. It is not Meanwhile •Polish press Lots an heinorite of truene just a question of loans.

'minority of trouble It is those on the streets of The tools of Briston, Rhadr the word hat Brixton, repression are truly internation- Polish take strikes-not poisonous While the hypocrisy of the the witch-hunters of the Mail and British being widely noted by the working class, its

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the ot the concept of the Trotskyist Opposition practical of organising fought all his life against bureaucratic, Certainly dogmatic but they as a vital ment. starting for the vital with few all the an the method advocated by the Beyond the be •taken decimon of established formal polatill alt democracy In essentan to mani- open pulation tllal elected, its lack tice: of any however does for socialism to the radical

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by her lack Majority Trotskyist "Oppressed workers" are not sim ply another struggles "group", like the homeless, gays blacks: the working class majority a class embraces the her oi women, gays, blacks, nome less and every other oppressed minority. It is insofar as they can be forward. Of тертес To The moon oT the class as a whole that the demands and struggles of these minorities stand' a hope of long ment to ending But the success in Inel oppresse difficult to think of personal issues which are irrela- programme. nationally gerweet Capital and Labour Calli The demand for women to context and have the right to control thent own Tertiv tor instance imme.

diately confronts the govern ment policy of cuts in the NHS endent working class tion rights, and the ideological cam paign designed bolster idea that power is in the home' Clearly which diff directly talist class. the confront state. establish examole une allemois lo combal and economy nolence within the home) pose no threat to it. ssed. we and degradation bring Iney plaulines gays alle. therefore be fight to estab

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leadership of the FANE The has gained Colitial amount of publicity anc large Federation _the European Action, a small has been the other right wing groups neo-Nazi group which with the Set accredited will svela Doll fusion and physical attacks over the Soyd Charlemagne last few months. activists The remains of Bologna station after the fascist bomb attack was not for his opinions not mis polical activites-botn of which were well known and

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Page 10 In a week that has seen the announcement of thous- ands redundancies more affecting major areas or industry one of the more serious was the decision of 1,600 Bowater to make workers redundant at their Mersey Mill, Ellesmere Port.

A further 3,000 workers' jobs Mersevside - wnere be affected by she deceivill affected by the decision to cose uns m- brams larees newsprint plant The bosses blame the over- valued pound which has preven- ted a rise in the price of news- print for 3½ years. Imported particularly Irom new sorut. North America and Scandinavia.

costs £40 a ton less than British largely to high newsprint, costs which are as much as twice as high as they.

are u foreign newsprint industries.

Joint approach The subsequent announce. Rent further air papy another major paper underlines manualture, threat jobs paper tne industry Keys, general secretary Bill of SOGAT blamed government policies

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tne recumoancies said that his union would and fight the redundancies *I have made it quite clear to bowater chauman lilat this are not going accept I don't preclude any cosure. form or action to jobs, they're not going to get With workers by ThA thousand taking Tory oppose

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policies there is plainly no of militancy in the organised working class. 'et the existing trade unio ureaucrats and Labol leaders

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cratic rights. can only be defended «colicies start from the independent interests of the working class, which as international to gain and everything to lose trom attemors to restore the profitability of their "own" employing class. In a period where the contra- dictions ne anarchic Capit alist system torce the wolesale closure and destruction of the productive society socialist planned onY

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Jobs torn up by Bowater Keys immediately back peddled away with it. "The decision has nothing at arguing that not all official channels had yet been all to do with labour relations which have been excellent and exhausted everything Workers in the paper indus- WiTh Tine government's policy of making polices such as supation of will have to rely on ined people expendable on the altar occupation of of monetarism". the policy of the union to date has been to partic- ine ot the doors ol tie muc in a joint approach with nationals that own the paper industry if they are to defend the posses unne 1 malenes government for aid to This will mean taking up and which industry-an approach acting on Keys' implicit recog- has met with determined refusal on the part of the Tories.

nition that the lores must be There is no way that Keys is thrown out li jobs are to De saved-something Keys himself going to act on the implications absolutely refuses to do.

his statement struggle against the Tories' *In a tragi-comic response monetarist policies the job massacre, Bowater BBC's PM Challenged workers have agreed to pay loI programme about his threats to advertisements in national news.

papers to tell the public about prevent Cosul C the crisis in paper making Bowater an angry sounding More jobs to go Engineering stewards at decision as 'mind boggling' and Hoovers in Camburslang in asked the company for 'statistic- al evidence' to support the mass for have called Scotland sacKIngs. resistance to redundancies.

*More The company is demand- than 4,000 clerical in BL are to lose their workers ing the are to 160 bou jobs as the Edwardes axe swung 2,000. total trom the producuon me lo luc stewards are office blocks Although the Daniels Manchester Doug pledged to fight they have

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North of betterary not yet prepared a plan to said the union would fight the defeat the company. plan to make several hundred 2,450 1soundant. at workers out "Great Universal stores nave Sons swallowed the mail order firm, val ulti condition Myers, on the strategy nas been pul ward to save the jobs in the 1,900 diesel engine firm.

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WelC by Motessor on Crossley se Professor John Crossley of Times NUJ FoC Jake mendation-which is not legally Ecclestone -Crossley For maace of binding- on the 18% offer (which voTe Te died to unt would certainly have been the company and that all tuture accepted). pay awards should be linked to position unaccept- the cost of living to recognise This able. Times journalists MUs the standard of 'excellence ol picket Sunday Times their journalists. members and demand they join Arbitration we sulle the lime Handse ment is jibbing at a few hun Last year the company, with dred they ds a negot jog the threats of sackings forced the Times chapel to accept a dis- Ists Heidells putes procedure which ended in next round agreement with the NGA and €20,000 each to The strike was given immed- buy out casuat suit wokers This is the reason for their have executive

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Two departments had • been shut down in th last few months management have just announced the drastic run-down Unit › is part or tne part: and service business, employing 130 from people now being 60 redundancies are demanded are not prehomie the end September compulsory redundancies wil follow Shop stewards nave beer told that other sections are also review. No worker in the plant can feel that their lob i safe It is vital that the unions break from their policy • of co operation with the increasing plant The increasing number fascist in the attacks and • provocations area is partlv due to the level o.

youth unemployment As well as the fight on jjobs the unions in all of the Lucas campaign action to forc raise its 10% employer to llle wage orrer At present, Lucas are refus- this figure ing to negotiate Only if the plants form a com bine committee organice combine-wide fight will it be possible to shift them from thei

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secret legally binding no agreement strike BL and the major between unions an advanced 1s in state of discussion. The agreement-which would finally remove all vestiges of control by BL workers over their own demands and negotia- Lons-fas anscusscu complete secrecy by ine Exec of the Confederation of Shipbuilding Engineering and It stems from the attack by Tories the unions but on the un to thei necks. in the most vicious attack yet carried out on BL workers. The 'no strike' clause as yet applies oniv to strikes called bi the Confed or any strikes called Robinson... more victimisations planned against federations and associa- tions of employers. Council shall "The Legally binding responsible for the BL become Procedure Agreement for hourly But it also seeks legally bind- 19 quayees arising under employees ol all disputes agreement that 1ng would be referred for decision (Interpretation

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to a BL Council made up of top management of BL and Leyland shall be referred to the Council for resolution... venices ano mu ae of the Confed. The BL Council Council shall have " he BI "shall have the responsibility and authority ensure that to to that procedural allu autorily procedural agreed amanenens arrangements are agreed and maintained". in the employung attack is the dissolving of the The background -ompanies.. Employees covered by 6.: shall not take prevous Negotiating Committee which strikes or other forms of indus.

ceased to exist August 1 in on trial action in support of any the document signed claim or dispute between any or will oy Moss Evans for the IGWU ir all of the unions and federa- April to sell out the Midlands associations and tons strikes. employers. drawn camen. between BL and the Confed "Since The Agreement executive, has been named The been freely and voluntarily the parties on entered into by That relationship the follows: Joint Negotiating Companies and on behalf of the Committee (the BL Council) shall be mutually employees of and in enuren comoosed попоит appointed atticals shall therefore 'exoressu Confed; the stamping out form part or ine conracis of the Combine employment of those employees the both the who are covered by its scope...

wll dally asle unions and lor a legamy emoice an escon or microcla able "no strike' clause. The document says: Companies Lilion he emptying a BL Combine warning provide panes facilities for unconstitutional BL have cracked down trade unionism... The unions shall take active on the Combine Committee of steps wherever committee senior mece swim -a. maintain constitutional trade been which has stewards unionism among employees and meeting in working hours unconstitutional prevent for the past 25 years. trade unionism Irom damaging the employing Companies The Chairman, Jack Adams, acknowledge "The parties and Mick Clark, the treasurer, their unique responsibilities for ave been aver a ma warmu securing survival after attending a meeting of the tane success of the United Kingdom's Combine on August 15 remaining only major auto- Áll those who attended were

AT THE TOP...

UNION DUES

tion of this Agreement that can- not be determined procedures adopted the employing Companies be shall referred to the BL Council for resolution unions' members shall normally be the President of the the CSEU and national officials, to be appointed by the CSEU.

national "Additionaly. one any official normally represented may meeting attend spe importance at the request of his national executive committee or other comporable body. document been discussed in not ilas secret by the conred executive two meetings in the past further months and three held meerne Was Wednesday (August 27). Officials obviously were without informing the work- force. The agreement would cover TN€

AUEW,

EETPU,

ACTSS.

APEX,

GMWU, UCATT and the Boiler- Metalworkers. Pattern- NaKCIS. makers. arniture. oneer vera Workers and Metal Mechanics warned by the company not to attend again. Adams and Clark were singled out for special treatment because management claimed they had Derek when Tinal sacked

KODISOI

was lasi November. Now management have said of meeting that a turther Will to their automatic sacking.

PRET YOU HAVETORS ARE UP ALL THE

RATORS ARE

I TEMPOKAKILT UNAVAILADLE.

CPSA witch hunt against strikers of Under the threat He goes so far as to imply "hounding out" that the another militant mass picket Comminis

THROIS ON

the Department of Employ- union must be on the agenda for ment moved with the not-too-distant future.

amazing that rapidity to reinstate Phil he the right wing and Richard behind him, Thomas is embark- hours before the campaign to whip mio picket started-an obvious mittees that have supported the and clumsy attempt in their defuse a situation which was eighth week of unofficial strike growing entrenched action) and bitter by the hour. Whilst Thomas sees to things the CPSA, the TUC itself wore hedged around with attacks however, ilar LaKoi "conditions" The striking Holland and Race Feartul of any link up between the Labou

CPSA

members still alt

VUL

lefts and workers in struggle Len after being informed by manage- that a further five of them the ment entered 11d with an attack he would never in addition to the two reinstated Tory MPs dream of making on and Race trans erred to the office rem have Unemployment monito, at its penel vance

TUC

proposing Corddell and Cleverley them- Is to

LULLELESS

Employment Bil to acts While *altar recorder or the number of workers arrested in each area pushed from seer Thomas' letter to the position of sackings they nave blanche frame both bership is unprecedented in the carte men at a time and place of their degree of its arrogance and bile.

Amid dismissive references own choosing to "the dafter end of the politic- CPSA General Secietary Ken Thomas, weighed in with a spectrimo de says unal groud.

like the SWP have so far been against the Vicous watch lunt with amuse tolerated, "initially swr (born corade and clever ley members). Thomas because of our attack on Labour tolerance, they launched increasingly and totall Reg allu misused unrepresentatively Race for publicising and attend- • the the mass pickets. He issued machine an all-members circular vilifying result of which our name has sometimes been a joke in the the SLIKeIS abusing the SWP. More than six police on duty outside Brixton unemployment office 0000000

THE RIGHT HERE, YOUL

THE POLISH WORKEKS DROOLD

CONTINUE THEIR STRINE.

INDEFINITELY!!

WHAT?

Page 1 The letter ludicrously Victory entitled . our and Thomas uses all italics underlining alli possible a aesperate DIc prove that industrial action did not win reinstatement. day's Alle nare with nd it must clenched timi in his hand be that it for Thomas to realise that and file was attendicu action that produced • une con Lessons Thomas says the CPSA must be united to continue the fight job cuts in The civi cerve us deas lifted a finger to oppose either ide or those the cuts already Just arouna ine come CA memners must cra but thn tons of the diment government terms and union leadership. be

HAUS

fought all along the line. addition Thomas and the right wing puppets of the NEC must be kicked out. In Thomas' case an immed- iate campaign for his resignation mud de been a coc Brixton. letter Thomas says that he will "slip back into the faceless role o. This is one General Secretary" merchant who mus hit and run allowed to creep back

HOT DE

into the sanctity of his cosy office.

(SO HERE'S YOUR HOTEL. I'M

SURE ITS UPTO YOUR T.UC

STANDARDS. EH!

YOU'RE ON THE

YEAH, SO LONG

WRECKERS ARENT

WORKING, THEY

- CAN'T BE FLOODING

BRITAIN WITH

THEIR CHEAP

FOREIGN

IMPORTS!

OF BETRAYAL!

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SOCIALIST

PRESS

TUC-A YEAR

66

'..A YEAR TO PULL TOGETHER FOR A

TUC

CONGRESS

Poland Cancel TUC visit While the in exports to Britain. strikers-break off the visit. An workers Now invitation from the Gdansk ship- strike wave Poland struggle against the be erupted bureaucrats David yard would dictatorial the

GMWU

and one which basnel ute are Stalinist bureaucracy, the justifying visit the The sa TUC packs its bags in pre- will speak to both sides accept in defiance of the puppet unions in Poland Yet they will clearly be seen for a visit as the paration running against as ine guests or lne burcaucrac WIlC guests of that bureaucracy.

made and will be used by them to

VICT

been The visit was conceived in persuade fanatical anti-communists like workers accept Frank Chappell reasonable' compromises Lis as all calls Tories, Chappell economy shoW solidarity with the Polish There is only

LIKE

and the impact of its cheap sees the visit as a chance to attack the workers' states not as

FUND

LOBBY THE TUC

ON UNEMPLOYMENT

Monday 1 September at noon sound the alarm! We have only It's time to Brighton Centre received £367.37 so far this month and we only

BRIGHTON

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LOBBY THE TUC

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GREATER BRITAIN"

bureaucratic dictatorships but as workers states (Chappell after all runs the least democratic and most bureaucratic umon m luc

TUC).

Silent The lefts have been sient Yet the

NUJ

executive called on the TUC to break off and send instead the Vis11 message of solidarity Polish working class. A résolu- the tion to demand this irom the NUJ IUl was passea at executive on August 22/23

TUC

must go further the

MKS

(United Strike Committee send representative to the

TUC

and cancel the invitation to the Polish bureaucracy.

Demagogy Truco its An delegate place before the blacking demands supplies. The Longshoremen's black- ing of Polish ships in the United States is by no means tree iron anti-communist demagogy on the pasharp tie desh be drawn A sharp line must betwen support ol workers and support for imper- ialism Before blacking is imposed the workers must be clear it is a the behest of the Polish strikers.

*TUC-Cancel your 'fraternal' visit to the bureau- clacy. Tories The TUC Congress is dominated by one ques- tion. What opposition, if any, is to be presen- ted the Thatcher government? Outside the conference workers will be demanding action to bring the govern- down. Inside its heavily policed doors the bureaucrats of the TUC will be wheeling and dealing to mealy-mouthed produce resolution of impotence. The Bakers Union resolu- tion-which at least calls for bringing down the Thatcher government-will be buried.

expressing • resoluton disapproval,

NOCK

promise of no serious action will almost fertainly be passed. 'Month of action' The TUC has a campaign Following the unvell. Day of Action in May, Len Murray and General the Council launching 41 C 'month of action' November, This will be greeted with despair by workers facing onslaughts jobs, rights and wages. What good will lunch- time parades and badges do against the Tory onslaught?

Nothing! Ireland End Tameside Trades Council will force its way into the

TUC

agenda despite the efforts of the General Council to bury it. The trades council was dis- affiliated ing a conference on Ireland in defiance of the TUC. Since : then a number of trades councils and conference NU. national han. The Tuc thi • disaffilia- told Tameside it na no rigat or appeal Now the NUJ executive has mandated its TUC delegation to follow up that vote by moving the Icterence back or tne repor on trades councils and challeng- ing the disaffiliation. takes money BL is to axe car assembly at Canley, , Coventry, by the this week, end of leaving 4,650 jobs in the factory against 8,000 a year ago.

The move comes as BL end production Triumph the Spitfire and the Dolomite and assembly of TR7 transfers Canley will continue as an engine production and adminis- tialiye wollie ullly

WORKERS SOCIALIST

LEAGUE

WINSFORD

Public meeting "The Trotskyist answer to the capitalist crisis" Sunday August 31 at 7.30 p.m George and Dragon Delamere Street

FIGHT

PRIOR'S LAW

Bill Sirs,

ISTC

promised Gdansk South Wales' if the remain- der of the plants are closed Yet Murray, Sirs and lt ls them who are the rest of auditioning for the part of Gierek Reading at other and struggles the bitter results of Employment Act already being rammed down the throats of the working Yet Britain, the class. in

TUC

witch-hunts. the pickets. In Ad- strikers and west, the TGWU and AUEW refused to give official Have backing to strikers uphold- ing basic union rights. On all fronts the TUC themselves the employers siding with and against the workers. The Workers Socialist League calls for a sustained fight to build a revolution- ary leadership in the work- these Cass leaders. We call for mass defiance of Prior's laws-not for thei 'monitoring' by the

TUC

We call for occupations against closures, work shar- ing on full pay and tor the forging of the unemployed and emploved general strike to force throw out this hated govern- the gagging The decision to Tameside the cowardly role the TUC plays ir the War to Britain' is not on to mobilise British working But class attack launched by the fascists and taken up by the bourgeois to deleno

DICOS

ICLUN

their cowardly pro-imperialist 'Better Life for All Campaign city Will! Tameside is one of democratic rights which them selves are incompatible with the TUC's support for British imper- ialism. BL Convenor and runs As 1600 workers go on the dole tney mignt spare a tnough ocarty. convenor Eddie McGarry is leading from th front. He has accenten volt redundancy and is leaving the factory on Friday This leading added to the long list those who fought against militant policies and then quit leave the workers to thei fate. A TGWU delegation top BL management last weel

BL'S

Cowley plant adjourned the meeting without agreement decision.