Socialist Press no. 227

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Affiliated to the Trotskyist 6 percent limit is only the start of " From appalling-to even worse! That's the prospect in view for standares millions public sector the Tories are allowed to get away with their plans on wages Several weeks the Thatcher government announced a 6% limit on pay mncreases in une oubuc sector.

Ta ta thy can ma min Since currently

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a real than ten pence in the pound to e says: some or me country s lowest paid workers. The Tories had thrown down the gauntlet to the workers £60 movement. Crumpled

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But what did the union leaders do? the Throughout immediately

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stand taken by the Tories.

Instead or preparing Ior all- out strike action to smash the 6% limit and bring down savage government of bankers.

naustralsts and Dronteers. ToD union officials made only vague blathering speeches. Seizing on this weakness, the left a trail of wreckage across covernment nas now revedied Le Cunty. plans to extend the 6% limit for another and to follow it, year: in April 1982, with even more schools. vouth clubs and roads.

Vicious pay restrictions.

In other words, this year's His henchmen in the Housing 10% cut in real wages will be Department are cuts in followed anorner and

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another until the labou movement is mobilised to throw Thatcher thieving plans that make them public cabinet out of office! But Nor is it simply on wages

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that the Tories plan to swing counch leaders. the axe again. Already they have issued with the draft proposals!

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 227 * 10 December 1980 * 20p International Liaison Committee

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says. o insults the Low • Paid Mass struggles against Labour government's 5% limit toppled Callaghan Jack Smart, Labour leader of the Association of Metropolitan Millionaire minister Michael plans COUnCIs. sald that the cut spend- should be kept confidential people's "feared" there

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would be a backlash from left- wing Labour councils! planning It is high time that there even backlash council housing. was throughout So outrageous are the Tory the detested they are refusing to workers' movement But right wing Labour coun- Labour cillors, and dre UmOn leaders Labour MPs have no intention who nave been of allowing such a mass struggle.

workers, four of Already Nine manning them shop stewards, have been sacked from BL's Longbridge plant. Two the 6.8% agreement. more have been given two weeks suspension without management 200 compulsory pay. The sackings mark a new. crackdown by BL as Edwardes takes full advantage of the sub- of the trade The nine was demonstrated leaders that WOIKerS were so Clearly wednesday wage review wardes 1s successiull management these victimisations will trigger an all-out offensive by manage- plant two weeks ago. The riot had ment ana cau to simlar vicen isations in other plants.

insults s the Low F Poic all out against ow pay to their 6% pay emerged last weekend proposed firemen's pay ment by offering the 6%. or by redundancies.

nev woule sooner allow socia local services and living standards to be destroyed than mount a fight to bring the Tories down.

6%. That this is not the feeling of Two strong the working class was under. workers are now lined by the huge November 29 negotiations_30.000 anti-Tory march. workers, A leadership must be built that is able and willing to lead drivers who workers in a struggle to defeat there this government-i by the tremen left of our living Meanwhile be any ung standards in 1984 million local authority Help us build that leader-

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Centre pages Defend Longbridge 9! laid off onslaught they production levels is underway workers over a dispute involving management makes use of the the

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OL Scals lom trim shop. bonus scheme raunea under They that knew workers And at Rover in Solihull were bitter over the sell-out of Have -announceu The oav cam ane noved to tum redundancies the production workers against who are to be selected by them.

the trim shop misfired and the Victimised workers turned on management instead. When those Longbridge accused arrived which was at the Inquiry MaST held in a manage when they were SigniCanLy called to what was described as ment 0U1011 Dant told it was not an "inquiry" into were inquiry at all but a disciplinary the riot which took place in the hearing-and nine of them were been clearly Continued page 11 provoked by management when Worse still to come-Thatcher First victims- local gov't workers Further evidence that the Tories will stick vindictively limits The Chancellor, Sir Geoffrey Howe, told local authorities that they would have to finance the settle other loca au LolILy worKers even less tidi The Tories have also said that the lo extra award paid to government white collar staff as part of last year's review must now de pala for out or the Howe of a "substantial" increase.

sections Since less than 6% is not in engaged in pay any way water "substantial, demanding 30% noting et to talk about increase, and 18,000 ambulance Union leaders should instead be calling mass meetings at once be demanding an mcrease smiar to that won every calling leaders of manual fight by their struggle still stalling to destroy Thatcher's pay limits. necoratons on mer cam ToT

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bureaucracy. East Germany, łOO. DD erEV onerea a crisis omic own substantial interest-free loan.

embroiled in a semingly endless And Polish Party chief Kania and costly war aimed at crush- has been sent back. with ringing puppet unconvincing-declarations ODDOSILIOn government in Afghanistan.

of confidence, to the The economic problems of preserving bureau- military intervention in Poland Cruc Control special plenum of the WOlO SISO pear down on ine Stalinist bureaucracies of Party's 240-strong Central Com Warsaw Pact countries. other millec was neid. willen Issucu à stern warning that "the fate of l ney. L00 lace Inel economic crises and share the the country and the nation is at Kremlin's their stake. working class will follow the For the Stalinist bureaucracy important T UlSte examoie I nganng lor oi Course tne most independent trade unions.

stake The miktary manoeuvres and position of power and privilege.

preparations; Callaltl U1H rarly memoCI pointed out to Newsweek maga- aramisi c

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official press zine, genuine reforms along the Salnist throughout Eastern Europe; and the lines demanded by workers the CuISIs wele carricu urouzir. o are soane to lose theis ple wattee wd dw ce warmd summit are plainly designed to who are and Merco es a ts. it serve a dual purpose coats Mcne cals. tue the lilt Ont Hana. wil co anvane ro restore mne Stalinist leaders hope to frighten stassans o-even welcome status the Polish workers into submission.

other hand, if they the Polish bureau- f'irst of tail, then the cds o oner an aovasœe wer an actual Russian invaders was nave peen Iot come to military invasion. chief Jozef invasion is still Klasa, who declared that: only being held IesUle Was lo socialisti unc nee ov une ensoR ast was real, ll power passea Iron week of the Soviet leadership to the hands of democracy to anti make ahid ure ney Pol of socialists, then Polish commun- billion

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NL would llave ule ait anu ane EM Sa Carneiro Makers ofl Modern Marxism By Terry Eagleton

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This Socialist Press pamphlet contains articles by Terry Eagleton on marxist theoreticians from the time of the Comintern to the present day-Lukacs, Korsch, Gramsci, Benjamin, Marcuse, Sartre and Althusser. Price 65p including P&P from WSL, BM Box 5277, London WCIV 6XX From back page duty to seek help from their socialist allies." speak Kasa coes not Just that at last S0,000 Communied himself. Partv present lunchonanes derive their privileges from their bureaucrațic mismanagement of Poland's nationalised economy on thousand top hundreds of of factory lallarels pouct ailu army chiefs and administrators Fat salaries None of these bureaucrats workers Wishes see polch stripping them their salaries, comfortable houses, special shops- umousines and calling them to account for their disastrous economic policies. would sooner SuRe v see Russian invasion crush the working class and restore them the political bower on which their wealth depends.

Their willingness to invite in such heavy-handed assistance nas veen increaseu ov tae move ment demanding an extension of demon te within Communist Party itseif which finds itselt increas. estanceo Irom i une work. ing class. A recent survey shows that less than one-fifth the Central Committee are workers.

Ana witl arouna one milon The death of Portuguese Prime Minister Francisco Sa Carneiro in an air crash is likely to have such profound effect on Portu- guese politics that it is hard to believe that someone did not plan it. , attermath. his chosen II1 lls candidate has been Presidenti? defeated, and his successor has sectared the the newiy viccicu right wing government to resign.

Carneiro had been inspirer and almost certainly alliance of suppor- reactonay ters of the old Salazar dictator- and hich composes the wingers other right Democratic Alliance. Freitas do Amaral, the or sae ra raki oh party deputy

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'wet' it Hs d comparanve appeared doubtful if do Amara would insist much, Sa Carneiro did, the sibility with ot wolking president vÍo< Ramalho Eanes In the event he has taken the -by simply resign- tasy way oul- ing from office! course, Carneiro's wn m romse been part of his position nad efforts to get Eanes defeated in Presidential elections which took place last week. manes eecuon campaon. ff which he was supported by Communist (whose candi- in his favour) and date withdrew most or tae sociaust rarty with the exception of its main leader Mario Soares, had made numer- ving polities of Sa Carneiro:

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Financial Time Party members having joined arrested Solidarity members and the lifting of a General Strike Soltany boe eze bor onk and file election of delegates to threat was an agreed six-week the Congress have been growing moratorium on strike action and some local branches have Walesa has been fighting tooth and since then been considering the unneard ol step of tabling resolutions ratified llave opposition leadership upned. line Quietly ditched Meane een wae ane the leadership of Solidarity have Kremlin's Te Soto anity demand, or a probe into sabre-rattling Included in the deal whicł budget and the privileges , of the secured the release of two secret police are likely to be Portugal's right wing Carneiro. thing to sa Carneiro 's death also owed lot to the Presidential election of the workers parties result iu lcdve ceco to stand an independent candi- unresolved social CoNTICts date. Portugal But fot oeralist policies of certainly was That. these only just victory beneath the surface was shown any kind me o Eanes only received workers' death: votes opposition to the When this was announced to extreme wing candidate- right a larae open ar canes eecion meeting in Lisbon the crowd. tenoy veuclal Dudle. Irish solidarity From back page caught in the pincer of its own implied by

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slogan the contradiction. The big we want? Political name. what humanitarian Status! When do we eet it 1n21 Moned T.ne demands in the Now! How do we get deserted as the strikes nunge Strike!'-especially trom group: who, like the RCT, turn their stal teu. The London demonstration members away from the labour on December 7 from Hyde Park to Kilburn rested heavily on the Diackine camoarons nave r be built; a movement for strike wum rem suwooners are on une left groups. action has worked for 4,500-5,000 bureaucrats The who have signer SUOMe 80 maren was not large. But it was ullal le navt bigget than the demonstration charenced The basis for a demonstra- calculy une committet 101 tion massively supported br Withdrawal on November 15.

trade Moreover and Labour Parti seriousness and sense of urgency waros nas to be worked Io now. doout ure cemonsaaoo wnict All those on the march were has been completely lacking from previous mobilisations.

serious about noi wanting tit hunger strikers to die. 75 contu-enl or aDoul Only such

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orientation behind the maenec into the labour Conspicuously absent were tnc perspectve oute e campaign in Britain which can the annet worker Revolutionary Party We call on all readers to raise The most urgent task now is turn movement emereene moLOn Inlot awa. Parties and Labour brancheg from big-name iberals into the other workers' organisations to …abour moverent that effect. There is no short cut as SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 10 December 1980

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quietly ditched by Walesa, who the outset regarded them as all cl drlassinche economic Tand's crisis gallops ahead and the food Solidarity queues lengthen it increasing" cautis will I110 the workers in check Brezhnev, "heads of state and the Stalinist mbenaus readers de an oamy praying that they succeed.

General Carneiro spontaneously and cheroke beroe broke av blaust were silenced into Inel "respect" by the Stalinist and reformist leaders! President Eanes And turnea up at the tuneral as heac state, he was hissed and booed the right-wing moumers March in support of the H Block hunger strikers Saturday 20 December Assemble 1.30 p.m. All Saints, Manchester Meeting Socialist Press Socialist Organiser Public meeting Defend the Irish Hunger Strikers Friday 12 December Camden Centre . (Behind Camden Town Hall) Kings X, London 7.30 pm.

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If there were a Richter via peopie especially nave been refusing to in res- scale for politics the needle government's ponse the of the seismograph in Italy Wishes orele to slay willie would be straining towards they are in tne appalling lving conditions provided for them by disaster pout in the atter math of the massive earth- the end of last week. of quake of November. 178,000 homeless only 783 had agreed to move into the hotels The appalling loss of life and jury during ne cartoquake Is more than matched by the They also suffer callous and suffering of those who survived.

cynical exploitation the difference hands of 1s that the by Iving sumeters-thousands TUIl starving, homeless and sick

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people- increasingly ascrib- market in food, drinking water are and other needed goods their Ing Basic food was selling in the God's political party, the Chris- Vilages for four times its normal țian Democrats who have dom- cost last week. . One journalist eported that beer was the pric inated tallan government since 1440. the continuation of his govern- Widespread organised looting ment. Unprepared and even body snatching was Fontent mend in staser. also reported increasing showed The government The Matia are also in control itself woefully unprepared for speculation that not only Is Its of a high proportion of trade in particular life at stake but so building mateials, construction such a catastropne, in spite ol the life of the also present recurrent experiences of major earthquakes in Italy. Ully ing The scandalous deficiencies Its relief programme has montns ago, and pernaps ever the life the First Italian of the relief operation led the been macecuate. Jate ana Republic itself. unfeelingly implemented to the State President Pertini (a former extent that leane memper or tne •ocausi Weaknesses of the small southern peasants Party) to make a TV and radio broadcast, informing vilaces arousea mas. resistance. the government, bitterly critic- Ine weakness or the govern- Instrid of sine its re tood, ment has been seized on by the Ising ine government s record or Stalinists of the Italian to distribute adequate "relief". temporary nomes Pertini's surprise broadcast munist carty series to thent als or ared They have not only produced cuss aru perturbano] stepped their verbal oppos- government up Foriani's shaky Christian Democratic government-Italy's ition to the Christian Democrats tal everyone saoule camo into army lorries and helicopters and —linking this with a new sugges fortieth since the war. carted off to empty hotels be tion for a left' alliance against The interiot the Christian Democrats-but Virgilio Rognoni was stung into alounu lie coast Ihis plan has been brutally offering his resignation, which unev nave aso organisee inel offensive to those who have lost own relief operations for the ronal later persuaded m and friends and wish to earthquake victims. family withdraw. Far as many Forlani forced into from neve a tae surrounumies wilcic was meeting of calling an emergency predicted. support lor Its oooor.

company their fellow sur- tunistic use of the earthquake, representatives of the parties o ivors and to begin to rebuild the CP appears to have nis coaltion government to see The deficiencies of the relief whether a basis still exists for tel Jolles operator nave come on too or major financial scandals about tahich are implicating virally oil revenues of the members reading

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a Socialist Press pamphlet Whilst Israeli chief of staff, General Rafael Eitan, boasts that war between Syria and Jordan would be to Israel's advantage, there can be little enthusiasm felt on the economic front by

THE TORIES!

the Begin government. The last month has seen a no confidence vote survived by

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only 57 54 with fewel votes to halt the 120 members Damnament. Kikud black bried the ruling headed by Begin. ot the contidence 1lc sulle vote was the soaring inflation level now around 130% forecasts for last A brand new pamphlet, spelling out an annual average of 160% or even more programme and perspective for Weizman, former DeCI defence minister ana member struggle to oust the Tories.

Begin's Herut voted confidence and was promptly Available, price 45p including postage from expelled by Herut. Further embarrassment WSL, BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX followed with the Minister Religious Affairs Aharon Abu- Christian Democrats. published 1ll acclalalion last week Communist The truth is that all this cals into question the responsibility of one or a few ministers, i of the present but a system Dower _concesuon method of hooduced and wilt and will contin. ually ineffectiveness produce confusion in the working allu of the state organs, corruption and scandals in the life of the government parties and impun- ity for the guilty. The CP went on to suggest that: for new government he comitted to a of all citizens and call discussion on the political forces with the necessary welce ama consciou of the risks which are now faced the democratic and which the parties by Italian republic is founded.

But the Communist itself has not been untouched by the crisis of authority which has followed the earthquake 1 nis is because the Mayor ol Naples Communist Naples is the largest city affec- ted by the earthquake. hatzeira being charged by the Attorney General of receiving brides Ition ditise to the unded of inflation close to The srael ondeer s spent defence and almost another third and repaying servicing debts were pay for Incurred defence needs. Minister Hurvitz, attacked from all sides for his failure to sem me ase or ma- tion, has suggested the that Tear seafd afforded the Gulf be used I to think of ways to cut the detence • succel such respite for the Zionists is a further inability the of so-called progressive Arao governments leaderships consistently fight Zionism and actively support the Pales 11112179 Zionist nde anti- propaganda Britain argues Zionist is to be anti-Jewish.

economic chaos provides an unprecedented for British workers opportunity to counter this lie. the destruction Although and death were not so severe in ENte mountain buildings were villages, many uninhabitable and made LeTs people have become homeless.

But on numerous occasions people have been removed from mer homes and provided wili no immediate alternative.

As result homeless have mobilised themselves and 20.000 of them have occupiec schools and other public buildings often against opposition of city government oricials -including members o the Communist Party. Massive burdens Maurizio Valenzi, the Com- munist Mayor, is threatening flats, Take over Inoccuber houses and even convents But he has still shrunk from taking accosaly measures Even before the earthquake there were 15,000 homless in Naples. there are an addit- ional 50.000 and many refugee: are arriving from the country villages. In Salerno the 8,000 home- less before the earthquake have Economic gloom for Zionist rulers With even the UN voting by 200 to recent shootings unarmed students in the West Bank, we must arce lt cue labour drove ment that Zionism as a political theory holds Jewish workers based as it is or racIs tual anu semitism is inherent in workers.

Such theories state' for Jews are ing "separate sociallst. and anti-semitism attacking the exploitative natur of the system with the unity o we working class Economic want Socialists should take every show that opportunity Lionist Israel. created in 1948 the massacre and expulsion the provided the promised safe home for world Jewiv reality for Jewish workers is one or war ane economic want wu millions wasted on defence to the continued repres guarantee son ol lue talestillals Page 3 been joined by 8,000 more.

All these problems arrive in a situation where the masses are already labouring under massive high colonel unemployment (in Salerno it is 16%) and fast inflation now fuelled by greatly the post- and enrunouake prontecting black marketeering The bourgeoisie has been these events have call even che pinto muestio future parliamentary democracy in Italy It is no coincidence there fore that ost-earthquake crisis has allowed the army uv to oresent itsel as une onl force capable of sorting out the situation And it has been encouraged in this by a growing number of leading politicians The government minister cnarce. missed local administrators and replaced them with generals.

can onlv be a matter of time before they say that if the army is the best answer to the problems earthquake- il 1s lilt answer to the problems in Italy as at holes Naples' Communist "this Mayor who said call til duake will have « social conse quences which have only just begun" could be more correct that he thought. The first duty of socialists must be to fight with the Pale tinians for their right to national self-determination. As part of that iight a taken up to win layers of Jewish workers fight against Zionism •ror their part the Palestin lans nave constantly denied ans Sure tion that they wish the Jews into the sea, a: Israell propaganda claims A socials raestme can oni be built after the break-up of the Israeli state and its replace by Dould. and social rights for Arabs and Jews. achieving this end We should strive to learn the lessons of the Gulf War and. the : West Bank resistance Only the Palestinian workers fight consistent- self-determination. If this ngat is to avoid being the coat-tails the Tied ot various leaderships a powerful Trotsky.

movement ust de oan we the Middle East.

Page 4 A new series Why build a party Pand wars Letter 'Justice' in the Free State Dear Editor would like to draw to your It trial by jury whole legal farce of alEcILIOn Important development within the So- be lald bare Will world to it called İrish "Free State". Even Following death, une 1976 on sentences passed in Noel and Marie Murray the Dublin branch that of the Assulld been given to the Murrav case ot Legal Justice

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Issued a statement which stated that the "particularly ate to keep in the past sentence reprehensible occaust Supreme Court the Special Criminal composed of justice in Ireland. government-appointed judges having no judicial independence.

without a jury and une covernment can use ine Aci which so abused the passed by make the court akin dence as to (when he believed judges and clergy wu a sellerine trouba The Director of Public Prose- ant ne reared a cowo ov Duty cutions responded by bringing and his followers) altering the proceedings two officers of the Association ment wien for "scandalising the throw decision, remove the judges Some freedom of speech for a "Free State"! But more was to replace miel with more renabie.

follow. Since the handpicked 'yes' men. initiated don't think legal battle has Haughey, noted. Ignt or no and Marie Murray contorioust can works way to have thesident ed the hig out of this one. President I would Court, all leading pro-justice for irelanc Justice Finlay decided the issue lavour PaucIs the DPP and argued (in July would reprint this letter because 1978) that he was entitled it might make people more con- and scious of vase

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The defendants, knowing the would way Franco's Spain. twisted the suit parea Io1 Inis so they made sure that their comments on the case would graphic detailed that under une allows for

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trial by jury serious cases alleged contempt they must be Ball la bury the most law-abiding, even brainwashed, "anti-terrorist' would Inrow out the con when rev neare the evidence and the conduct of the Murray case, the suppression Lest only defence witness R. Stenson who beyond any doubt was so badly tortured by the heavy he was too ill to appear in court.

Recently the Supreme Court •has been considering the annea from the defendants to be tried by a jury and after a three-day reserved its judgement. willing, Ine yet to announce under nave Haughey their decision. revolutionary 4. Workers Virtually every thinking man or woman is increasing- ly concerned these days at the threat of nuclear war.

The American war budget under Carter has risen to over plov Dillon cacn year. Reagan is committed to increase it still further-and establish the "first Dash American strike" against the Soviet Union.

Thatcher's government is a willing assistant to the American warmongers. It has offered bases for ine new cruise missues. and promised spend £5,000 million new American missile system are spent

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resolIces freely by the capitalists in time of recession because they military one sure way of preserving their exploitation and private profit capitalists wish une ensure that the underdeveloped remain dependent economies CaDilalsl market-providing them with cheap raw materials and sweated the billulle JUveLLY allu their for own repression / is allowed the peoples. the Murray Ita And the capitalists wish to for all the investments and reserve mner political authority by propping the Supreme Court up reactionary dictatorships and should tind a face-savino verdict for the government it will mean publicity will have Which the government is desper- confident that the won't legal But, of course, it necessary De Valera in 1936 that all the constitution so that the govern " so desre• could out the Supreme Court and that Charlie for being grateful i By Councillor Dick Jones anu abroad Despite the cold weather, the real lace of justice 300 angry tenants say was no better than turned up on December 1 bringing petitions, spontan- Yours, eously gathered, with over Willie Moloney 1500 to lobby signatures, coventry councillors against the pro- posed £3 rent increase in Banbury. They picketed Banbury Town Hall councillors arrived for the Housing Services Committee meeting: Own ideas Although Committee chair- person CilI Doreen Smith agreed accool wit the meeting, the council Delore refused to admit all the tenants meeting, claiming there room for wa. I01 sullicient more than 20. However, Ton how to chanis ideas own They marched around to the other side of the building, shouted their indignation

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room Sult Litt committee Cuban women's militia: workers must defend nationalised economies against imperialist attack regimes through- autor tariat cunthed supple of all ad port the continued oil and supplies other crucial commodities against imperialism Most obvious on a world To is the military backing by scale example British and American imperialist governments to the Arab sheik- struggle against doms in the oil states. But, much nearer home, the support to British army is far more activel organisation engaged in • a daily round of repression in the Ireland in a bid to crush the was ol lalona uberaton workinit does not own class exploited class. the factories, the banks or other tactics to secure that defeat.

perpetuating the Similarly capitalist system of production for profit fighting this into any country end system, workers' natural allies American their brothers and why workers must way supporting not be neutral on the questio war, or side with their "own' tries lullie Class. In every instance we must resort the only take a stance in opposition Lilt Capitals! Chass ano workins agents We must fight for uncondi- -through tional defence of those national- the light to lot movemens nonene to larou InTO rank off the shackles of colonial rule that will oppose the war or pro-imperialist dictatorships.

And in the mean Tenants' anger at Banbury rent rise has no control They reparts nave what they should cost. window. long berore they did What should ine meeling ten nad to be adjourned to a larger hall up- have done in your opinion stairs to accommodate CT: Mismanagemen inside, the every election tenants unce waited patiently throughout the crow about having kept dowt hoping meeting, rates, Tents letting them mercases to be ascussed. became Then wher obvious at it was not in has to be an almighty bump up.

discussed DJ: What did you think of the Hiccuil disrupting the commit- cancel. Turnout tee for 15 minutes meeting inter After the viewed ex-Mayor weather. Banbur Taylor, _Lavoul and Tenants for the lobby? Action Committee •Secretary DR: Originally Dave Ramsay presence sitting facing them. explain simply vOl how this rent increase has come be the first time about? any uning s nappened In banbury Colin Taylor: According to the -the Tories must have had quite Chief Executive, there are three a surprise components main secondly, initial deficit of £75,000 hand in the petitions which had been gathered from all over caused ov accountino errors areaiinen Second, a massive leap in the number and cost beinhis prober Doreen 1s essentiall due to the use of outside con- mittee-DJ) tractors, over whom the council "give them SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday December 10 1980 course that we necessarily sup tries semi-colonial regimes . OI Doston must be lor suci those currently leading the fight agitation by the workers' move.

ment on both sides-to turn the Ireland wai fio a eva war azalast eact ruling capitalist class we delend uncondl tionally the right of the IRA We fight above all to defen British rule: but and maximise the revolutionary working class une most cruca strengun of defend the the

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as and gains tha have been made in the struggle insofar actually advances that struggle against impertalism At the foretront of these Programmes gains are the nationalised econ- omies of the states We stand unambiguously for which remain as the defeat of British imperialism truits of Kussian in Ireland: the question is ove programme and Workers must stand uncon- ditionally the defence

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resolutely Litt WUIKeTS states 99211087 at the sante me for tine -Whether 1t n same a Media a stol state a Central political overthrow of the ruling republic •aims oureaucracies valvador. or me MoDum oca As Labour and trade union torship in Zaire-without in any leaders line up in collaboration the bastille with British emplovers in thei capitalist regime in those coun- demands for nationalist import controls and in support for the We recognise that in the last war in Ireland, it is vital that the way such action is through action of strongly and consistently raised the in the workers' movement.

imperialist countries themselves Only a revolutionary party strikes, blacking organst solelers programme for the overthrow of and file committees can carry through case ol a wa between two imperialist coun they deserve", adding "consid- that they come from such what ering don't know been done, nor a wide area. What you Finally, the Treasurer expec- achieve with the petition tea the interest rates to drop ic to the want nousing services Committee to think again on these swingeing the council increases, especially with from Inochan micreases At unity es bach he tory central government. DJ: What further action do you have planned? instead Kul comes to it. we zre a withhold rise gradually with the suddenly there However, we hope that it won't come to this DJ: Is there anything you'd like to say in conclusion? DR: In the we've considering laid down solid foundations, and received : What were your objectives lots of spontaneous support Rent payers should not have to make ou total Cost OI Int felt by the numbers. Council's mistakes. This must in years tha punisnea someone else's stupidity.

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Page 6 Organisational Structure of the Labour Union Let us begin our analysis of labour-management reations a Nissan examining the organisational structure of Union. Nissan Workers noteworthy especal how aspect The organised and the procedure tor electing union representatives. kereng to lit balloting system for election of the une 27 union charter prescribes in Article 192 1 tney shoule De through "direct and secret voting by the members". 'Secret voting' Theoretically "secret should mean a vowe syst to choose a a mente to choose a candidațe his own choice without inter- Actually, however, the election of Nissan Workers' officers is far from secret.

place, the

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election both the percentage of their votes voters (99.72-99.99%) and the percen- tage or votes gainea by the elec- ted officers 98.58-100%) are unusually high. the very high percentage or votes obtainea dy each elected officer is due to the fact ordinary members cast their votes under close survenance some members' testimony. IN: Nissan Motor's Oppama Plant states: when we vote. we are asked around the super- desk in a group of several time and write al d Vul Vul YUL right

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one spot. the desk, in front of everybody. desk is width. And standing beside the Ine eleclon trators, mean, the •assistan manager and the shop steward, watch closely see if who wille down die Mall Hallie.

Mr Y at the company head offices tatani blank votes or invalid votes are ronna, me moD stew- ard is forced to submit a written apology leaders. That is why he keeps an eye on now we I In the vollig slips. He even fills out the for new employees, say. they the Lilal is wile may not characters know who the candidates are.

As these accounts of ordin- show, surveillance members Nissan is a common practice.

Table 4. Elections of Nissan Workers' Union Standing Committee Members Date of No. of committee No. of No. % of % of Average % of votes members to be candidates barcitu vy a elected successful candidate August 1972 182 59,908 99.72 99.08 98.58 August 1973 193 193 63,653 99.75 99.08 .98.59 August 1974 198 198 65,131 99.78 99.32 98.83 August 1975 205 205 66,115 99.94 99.44 99.00 August 1976 210 210 i 67,719 99.97. 99.74 99.48 9,333 99.99 99.85 100.00 rebruary I9ll August 1978 71,737 99.96 99.90 99.69 210 Notes 1. Tabulated from Nissan Workers' Union Hatten Nyusu (Development News), Nos: 445, 463, 465, 480, 2. "Average percentage of votes gathered by a successful candidate" refers to the percentage of valid vote: Voting figures in "secret" ballot One rationalisation for the begin with, collective bargaining these renamed 'wage Motor is essentially a struggles") survellance is that the existence "dis- especially striking what OI votes critical Leader hip would "reveal dis- about these cases is that thev all trinition' the union to produced. It is also a forum for resulted in "full attainment the demanded"; Another more *negotiations increments on the con wage intereste reason Is unal low- and and till ranking supervisors labour were completely iden and union antons officers intervene in the ballot- tical wiin the amounts agree ing to protect themselves.

chamnet for nefioly, upon" by management negotiations on th critical votes to be allo W 'wage increase Two sessions CasT uncl elecuor year-end districts would mean that their summer control over the rank. and file "bonuses", reduced What is more, each year older hours, retirement members is inettective. collective Dar callin were held only twice. the first Written apology is important note wnat meeting was • for the union to thát the explain its request, and for the and "distribution" of wealth are If the voter turnout is low or compay present lls views. if votes critical of union leader- mechanically uvaltu sevalalely and the second meeting was for on the basis of an understanding the company present its sup are cast Ine steward that both labour and in charge of the district is forced proposed wage increase share ment submit exactly Was called "summary statemen! umon saeman of resolution wear ana mar tee materests o to the union, and "Ful • 2 nmen

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the two parties can differ only increase demanded" after only …s cumcisco lor neglect or auly man but weath regat to questio too natural bar- It is then only two sessions collective houl be for the low ranking union how —His is cl blololyoc o| . officers to intervene in the elec- Third what are the reasons

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process anu see lo ll Ulal Full attainment the union members under their type of for collective bar- charge refrain from casting votes gaining! critical of the union leadership.

us look at the Second, One 1s that the process collective bargaining actually prototype of collective bargain- Structure of Labour-Manage- carefully ment Relations. ing practiced at Nissan since the Consists defeat of the 1953 major strike.

The present organisation of amaneed sud-orotesses.ie.ono information of threest by the The series of collective labour-management relations ai submission request by the Nissan since the hio strike o Cane( •ul

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collective bargaining; 1953 consists of three compon- periods from •933 The crisis resulted "full attain- collective bargaining; con- neconamons on cerals • a The the secretarial level; and final agree.

increase demanded" santanon: ana ment ner one as vacan cer Furthermore these : prepara channels of labour-managemen Tvpical examoles of collec- relations the characteristics contacts take place. ofter

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between as explained below. benine closed coors she labour manfement andange increases" a) Collective bargaining: To of labour management and who once those union leaders held positions the depart- charge labour ment of and even between company's top executives and chairman of Jidosh (Federation Roren Workers' • 01 Japal AulOMOULC Unions-FJAWU) and other union leaders. However many stages there be in the process of collec- may wal alone can not ensure the increase demanded". Achieved fully That the union has always been able to achieve its demands Pire blat the bie of collec bargaining through without meeting any serious opposition from the can mean only one oI things Either The lnion dominant baran inge position and the powerless; On the production track or the union, even before enter- Datsun workers take a tea-break into collective bargaining, has knowledge of the so ant to a in and all deliberately from requesting more nom the com panyudging from the balance of between labour management wal nas prevance in Japanese capitalism since the 1950s especiall defeat of the Nissan Local of Nationa Union of Automobile Workers 1953 the former possibility may be precluded mind that there has never been a strike at Nissan in the past 25 years. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday December 10 1980.

We left with the latter Care "full attainment of demanded" een possible only because the always lia

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MOSLEY: THE FASCIST

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BARONET

The late and unlamented Oswald Mosley was a most unusual sort of fascist. Hasno ustan empee demagogic tubthumper ALAN CLINTON looks at the record of the mussoli all auventurer and d aristocrat Tory turned Labourite turned fascist refugee form the socialist move- who died in Paris last week.

except for a was ne short time. an entusiastic racist Inke Hitier or Goebbels. It is true that Mosley was an ex-socialist like Mussolini, the aristo- errant member cratic caste like d'Annunzio.

proponent of social reform and tude in the Labour left of the had particular 20s disu imperaus War neanu tale aru • JU: personal forming a tiny party mostly Mosley became a proponent.

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O1S own superiority and other from his own family. Some the same set forms of psychological motiva- policies for state-induced capit- He tried with no success to employ support

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Tank Liberals it se Tories, especoing meant going unions, to replace the House of Mosley alter all was the mlith baronet. (This that he the Lords. became Sir Oswald as a result of d tl 199.. However, for others the way ine greal acmevement or benng Left credentials out was different. They the eldest son of a great great became who bought a the Class recruits title trom George lil in 1181) labour'. inherited large Morel and the semi-pacifists They were close to concepts ne aso tract of land plundered and of the corporate state' came over as șupporters of nine- exploited by family in the led by many Lechn centu bourceo solu- Weit what Greater impeccable 1s now tions for the great problems of al Ca (lecl wiLh leli modern capitalism and imperial- credentials-like Alf Purcell, Manchester. He was representa- member of the

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Genera thus a 1sm aine oof the landed 1920s the the Thev helped to Council durins creale allu most important and the foreign policies of the Labour Secretary Mancheste. Party persist the TradesCouncilin the early 30s.

oersistent CrOUUS DIiuSi society and politics. This combination of semi- present day. The social which layer incipient and CorporaLIsin spawned Mosley did not sudden- Keynsianism-a sort evolu Grand plan disappear tionary socialism without class "TOm •tne nca polițical scene after the bour -was the political trajec suureil geois revolution of 1640.

For Mosley there tory or mosicy another variant. He came over It is vital to remember that Nord dér dcd vc dvay by the extension of the parlia- other socialist alterna- Labour the only franchise 1832, mentary knew grand plan for tive avaiable in 1929-30 was the tne 1867 and 1884. capitalist without social- ültra-left lunacy the munist Party eflecting Stalin's 1hey remanea as tne main Ism social base of the Tory Party which policy. he became an cally davoldtt and the chief of MPs provider of Keynsian-type said that social democracy anc solutions neocaliys polices dep esson, fascism were wwwiticl TWInS century. public There is some congruence advocating policies Mosny tradicon fen he between Keynsianism

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ucici alll became Tory Mit for Harrow in tradition when very much else. but there is no neces Lascisi There was a particular atti- sary relationship. He then had the added asset record and a limp, war oI a acquired injury • Irom aR sus- tained falling out an aeroplane when trying to learn Kow Lost ll He was not simply a repres entative of his class, but conspicuous one. He married Cvnthia Curzon.

daughter of one otrne mos aristocratic, vicious exploiters of colonial peoples Viceroy 'India and leadins tory politician The King and vueen were both present at this wedding in 1920. It was the 'socia event' of the year which through the George British the Counci oi Action. workers expressec thei oppos- ition to the imperialist war against the Soviet Union.

Disorientation It is important to realise that these were of great political disorientation for siitains rorme cass The Russian Revolution had swept away some of their blood vIOLCiS The Labour Partv in Britain seemed capable winning a majority in Parlament. traditional structure oi Ritich nine class poltics was could Liberals alternate with Tories as ruling class

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•Tecu devoted to balancing the inter- of the various factions of tie bouracisic presented «maton dilemma for many of Britain's ruling groups. For Lloyd George, former As a matter of fact Keyn- sian policies have beer carried through not by the fascists, but the orgorm ss phoe nes on the strongest proponents right allest lucas present day. It is not without significance that Mosley found Dy lape thetic Robert kideskv. auew ano an extreme right wing social democrat.

But this is not to say that all such people move in that same direction Mosley got a following within the Labour Party for auea solutons lo cavilalls crisis. was this conjuncture that created Mosley's abortive New went Party ot 1951 and then Fasciot ther riti British Union this became a •Verv UuICKIy movement that ammea not loI child not achtare, mat ores i not achieve, for th brutality IaCisi dilu sticel fighting by which it tried to show its power. Support At the time advanced OI caDilalst CisIs ale las perspective had the support of significant sections of the capit alist viass. It was not the old dogmatic intis nitis of the likes other 'pure lascisls. out d ucOzosC Dooul• ist movement owing something to its origins in the labour move- and more to the pattern ment uy iussoll It was not only the Daily SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday December 10 1980 Mosley Mail that shouted 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts' Mosley's lack of real support was because the ruling class had no need of him. Thev oot the 'strong govern left all bi stoweo oul to his fancy dress hum cet parades. As Mosley increasingly went vlto ule streco lol ms supoule cam oullt up tne anu-semiuc and the organised paigns thuggery of the 1934 Olympi became a usetu tool for some of the purposes of Britain's rulers. The Public Order Act of 1936 which they passed alleged- to stoo une usorue te wa • iment the act ritily of ded at was really aimed at limiting crais. socialsis ana urade unon Ists, ana nas almost always been used to this purpose to the present day Mosley himself tried in later years to deny, in definace of all.

the evidence, that the move- ment had been anti-semitic ne caly oe avar. some of his best friends were Jews.

He even tried to deny that children had ever beer LIlOWI through plate glass windows in of London and the East End had Lilal House. ocel nomner These statements are belied the attitudes taken by very Mosley in •lalei cacy of sutrender 1940. his campaign Jewish f London in the late 40s and his exploit тас ae ack Mosley's supporters confronted by workers in Battle of Cable Street, 1936 imigrants in West London ir the late.50s last brought Mosler direct continuity with the InTo day fascist organisa- tions Reign of terror In his hayday in the 1930s only Mosler embodied these measures which capitalism needs wo lare ll scill , if anybody, would не done have brought a restoration of government" racialist : reign terro, anc save canos Iom wade umomsl and socialists This was an option which the ruling class had not founc necesery to use m orde cheir system -ye privilegos defend their and Mosley's roots in the landed aristocracy were socia group which has still by disappeared from hltals brusn ponucal scene ois or monen proetaime mobs anu cress cly. boulecuk were bribed to scream for King and Country. are ancestors of • Ine the 'patriots' who sui call aganst mne enemies wienn.ke racial minorities, trade union- ists, communists and homosex Udis They may yet need anothe Mosley, after the one that is dead. Racist hatred We o it e certain that if ndl or Nose vat they will egregious but individua wel -ored who will show the racist hatred that is justunder the skin of ou most cultured rulers The will show the sam nalicer er contidence tnet w!

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INDUSTRIAL NEWS

REJECT FBU

18 MONTH DEAL!

The The FBU Executive will revised management came in the face of go to a further recall confer- support massive ence this week in a bid to both within the FBU and from foist onto their members a the labour movement. pay offer which effectively uccidicu had the rare nucers ends the agreement won in tion which had supervised army of strike WeeK strikebreakers 1977-78. reported The offer -widely Dissipated as a victorv, giving firemen then full 18.8% claim - -is noting or sinall Even The link between FBU pay supported and tne upper qualit action-wale the kelanned rue manual workers' wage fighters Union's call for scabb- firemen have ing was being flouted by its own broken: been offered 13% backdated to zocal members. the review date of November 7 Yet this strength and another 5.8% in April.

been dissipated by The employers have also proceed with uIC made it clear that they wish in one day stoppage and the wide- future to change the fire service spread confusion on pay review date to April.

of the offer. Divided employers nave attaching Thus, though the FBU Exec- Mallor utive now deny it vehemently, it seems most ikely unal ing levels and a declaration lal offer is accepted, there will be reaundancies cannot settlements way Oul. firemen unti April 1982! Indeed though they are now strongly the pressing the case divided on • BU EC was itselt the ofter when irst tney dis cussed it. more ence ve use Vi law! including: Eight votes went for rejec- off duty Only on the casting vote of the *Variable manning. offer carried as chair first of policy, and the one-way surikes walk tucy mandated to call was cancelied.

With the workers thousand taking the to Tory " o achieve streets to tive Teadersnio policies there is plainly the advance JaCK or mintancy Trade organised working class. politics Yet the existing trade union alism 'left'. parallelit Workers League repared Is a Meriners Jobs. dards, social services and demo cratic monts in Britain. Inese can oniy de defended through policies start which of the nothing internationally. affiliated gain and everything from attempts to restore

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parasite plannec only socialis! Cracies The offer from *Loss of agreed rest days.

*Work more firemen mean inspections by cut in fire prevention The TUC staff) expenses-a *Travelling ASsoCia iringe benent coula be losi "Tradesmen's work-firemer during the last having maintenance etc on (building Iner due sallons The nave meeke put out a statement answering -but made no call the employers Diedkawa' the to relecu une ded have claimed Instead they "there strings that attached to the pay offer. They not condona accepting redundancies union nas now forms of worsening the EC's fail- first contions. Many brigades are not con- vinced They are prepared to the nature the offer. The claim can Few workers realise that the wor tne action is pressed forward without delay.

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 10 December 1980 On Tuesday December 2 Hospital for Longworth geriatric women was occu- pied by the staff. The majority or workers al the hospital are members of

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COHSE has a national policy treatened facilities-on paper, that is.

For years Long- worth Hospital has been Ene mrea or cosure out ouTm that • time not one

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official came to the hospital to actively encourage the staff to occupy. This was left to the staff themselves. Fortunately tie cosure was lust announced active assistant secretary very active secretary en assistall who had South Oxford involved in the оссианов ano wine had responsibility in the branch the Longworth section. She immediately organised a meeting The steward at the hospital and they adopted the policy of tion when the closure date was announced. They established a very strong Longworth Hospital ooport commules. Unionised At the the same meas of Longworth closure was announced the closure of the major Geratie Oxfordshire-Cowley Road Hos- -was also proposed. pital Ihis was a much larger nos- prawn interatio ally for deved- centrally situated opments in geriatric care strongly cowiey Kodu was • unionisea by WiTh The shop steward, Betty Ward, National Execu- being a when the closure of cowley munity NUPE) organised a meeting.

amended over people-but the only recommen- lation to come out of it to save Koad Hospital LUWICy Was petition.

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organised nothing- just with manage- one meeting Council, On Trades Com- The T mite of the sun co the officers Cowley Tine internal affairs of NUPE They hotly argued thạt the workers there did not want to not even a cut! Cowley Road Hospital now closed. standing empty, desolate. Lne sacked! appeals hearing was scheduled for the Friday Immediately they heard the Wednesday's night shit tim and Metro assembly struck. Thursday morning they mounted a picket on the gates.

bur mar momme no read al all was given by the Works Com- mittee Word was passed around the the took mitread sing them normally work awall une oucome une appeal. Later in the day the Works Committee decided advise mant saw workers out ar work normally in order to 'avoid being isolated" same time they did their best to workers anu acluse tessance ov setung "persuade" management

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If these workers can do it, you can do it! - Inside the occupation thousands of signatures on the developing the necessary control petition. Road Support LOWLeY Committee, was set up, but it the authority of the occupation Stard cam concent thing etty section of worker. any energies had odds against them in not in ligating closure the plans, but doing everything in establishing occupation her power to fight and discredit Lift

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bunch troublemaking of miles outside of Longworth "politicos". village, small and isolated their own NUPE stew- tam one arounus. will many ards doing nothing to tight the entrances. distane mom that spital 100d The main closure ous organsme manser is a .deals and smear campaigns the st the were Conde con ll lie woods. Will Makes JOUK workers lilali out and picket Irom Ine main body of the hospital complete opposition impossible closure without Therefore, a 24 hour picket leadership and encouragement has could not organise the very big woods, where there is no light step of occupation. or shelter. The workers at Longworth The hospital itself is run like are fully aware that though it large InSTiTution policy on Challenging the nursing officer to have ine paper actually establishing an years.

is like challenging the head the household. who are hostile tio autonialc. process. the occupation have had It requires a lot of advice, years of having their autocratic patient developing. authority respected through the tidence. and a suostantai salu in the consciousness of workers, The women who work at the Longbridge From page 1 to postpone the appeal for one Derek Longbridge convenol week trade unions Robinson a year ago. carried out an inquiry into the These victimisations must be stoopca. Incie nas as ver beer rul time officials and con no joint shop stewards meeting venors are now yentsare ning set unguiry.

on the called in Longbridge to discuss the victimisation; one st be The cale mmediately ewwe are suspended on mull Action must called defence of the nine before it is pay and denied access to the plant. too late. As every militant Knows, TGWU members suspension on full pay is the kiss The four stewards victimised or gento to a victimsee worker.

It isolates the worker from the aie all members of the TGWU.

workforce and, by ensuring that arguing that

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shop stewards must defen ne recewes mum wages. makes 1 doubly hard secure strike ded correctly sanctioned action in his support. official strike action in defence Robinson-who was The Longbridge sackings are a member of the AUEW. thus following the wen worl Evans must now be forced to ball or a casse umon-busting immediately victimisation. Exactly similar Lile sante tactics of delay and defend the four sTewar с used by Duffy and four other

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if thev not all fully reinstat- leadership ed at Friday's appeal hearing.

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occupanon to one or suppor and help. factor in this i: 1 lC Illa or that the care or the patients 1: not in anyway he or hospid. The strength occupations is that by law while must be serviced, supplied, staff must.be paid, and full medical cover must be given ne centra questions toere- fore keeping the patients in the hospital. Without an occupation there is nothing stopping driving ambulances irom Dalicills LItt AHA-controlled hospital under instructions from the AHA.

Once a picket is mounted on TOr by the ambulance union, then : drivers are under instruction their ullull fol lo Cioss lit purpose

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which could threaten the occu- pation. The central task for the occ- upation is tnererore to prevent patien obeir to do this order the picket must obviously be main tainea. but we nave seen in te best him thed poethiny save smashed through by scab A sufficient threat must be posed to the AHA to preven 1 employing these tactics This threat can only take the torm. o Strike action tourn out the NHS in the area, backed hospital work on a multitude of up by supporting strike action Dart-ume [in with industrial sectors child care arrangements Irom and when they can get a lift into minea to preserve lnel nealt!

service. une nosola ron mer nones n outlying villages or with other This is the aim of the occu- part-time jobs in the local pation committee, thing for cas. large families; part-time women workers-some Mant nave and therefore heavy of whom have not even atten- ded union meetings before, and ments in the home. Getting a meeting of all the wild lave lau years of playin!

staff is a complete impossibility.

a set role in the family, now Therefore spend their doing thei had to arduous shift in the short be declared by one shift, very belore the intention got back to statied hospital. as well as con management, and could only solidating the occupation there later be explained to the others!

challenging the upper eschelons of management and now coming occupation many ditterent meetings to get speak the involvement of staff on all trades councils, union meetings the different shifts. and but it me ines. are determined Sometimes members of the having got so far, and done so occupation committee find that nuch, not to give up the They are fully aware of hor certain shift with hostile sisters 1s al sake represen St. Benedicts all unsylvatie wance stal Lives Ine The confidence, strength and Hospital occupation have • come determination of the down several times over this occupation committee trom week he support are is noticeably shitting the whole the Longworth advice desy frein the option. workers. day from one suspicion, They, like the Longworth indifference or hostility to the workers are determined that this Xavier sacked Meetings designed The

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to Health ATEr Committee is to meet tomorrow extend the strike action in to discuss action to prevent this defence of NUPE Branch victimisation Chairman Conway Xavier are taking place as we go to FT press. navier was sackea without notice from his job as Deputy sackings Head Porter Ormond Street Hospital as a result of management moves to crush action in defence of a porter sacked at Queen Elizabeth Hos THE victimisation of 20 pital, Hackney Hallacers The immediate walk-out by Financial

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Tne around 100

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members in Times on Sunday night. The : 20 his defence was met by scabbing men been fighting har for renegotiation their houst Porter-who is chairman of the aa colleal local COHSE branch! Page 11 one sate pater not follow of isolation pallell and utical as ten own and so many other occupations. The national leaders of

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and for all their cluckings of sympa- thy, have not yet bit the strength their The cuts AHAs are confident up and down the country that they can away WHEn murder-for how many of the sudden from hounsfow pade st. deaths patients evicted their brutal actions? movement outraged callousness Manlacement I mese actons sold nave eer mobilised strike action in defence of our hospital The AHA in Oxfordshire are relving - ike older

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as it the CORSE led betra weak-kneed betray als from Suspended declared COHSE officials recommended occupation be 'suspen- Enat the ded' on the basis of an agree the

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men with COHSE Lul Cursuilatioll before moving patients' The argument was worthless The

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continued to declare its determination to close the Longworta ana ultimately the whole of the hospital The COHSE members of the occupation committee immed- iately voted unanimously they relect the proposals. stating hadn't gone so far to turn back now for nothin The

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officials now know that selling Lus oCcuDd tion to require a out is going bit of thought. The AHA are aware of this too. Lady McCarthy the

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chairwoman is on the GMC ol the local Labour Party is also supporter of the of Three Gang all Oxford Labour Party) She is vicious in her deter mination to break-up the NHS in Oxfordshire, in particular the "cinderella" services for geria- trics lamson, Chairman it is Do. Ker Williamson the Longworth Hospital Support Committee, that she and fellow wun aunters are delenomeo t allow to join the refuse Labour Party McCarthv is probably the anti-working MOSt

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class figure in the local Labou Party-but already fellow right winces demovnen to protec her and to attack the hospital occupation This they finding ale impossible do. to Oxford and District Trades Union Council has given unanimous support and unior branches including • or che 5/60 Branch TGWU at Cowley have begun to support. Must win ine communities or Long worth and surrounding villages up pickets Whole sending lammies can be seen dolng gate It is vital that the discrep ancy is exposed throughout the perweet Those Labour and trade union leaders carrying bass had those fion the the • attacks the working tor soclaust boucies Longworth Hospital occupation must win and be a beacon those fighting to defend health services.

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Rover workers vote to occupy Management at the BL This . have of the 350 achieved only 150 of Rovers SD1 plant in Soli- they by Icuunuancic wall hull have informed the voluntary means trade unions of their inten- This has been turned into a the trad tion to enforce 200 compul- frontal by their sory redundancies. those to be made redundant will be selected by the basis of management on "skill" and

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The Point Shop The Joint Stewards Committee called a mass meet- opposé the redundancies and to the plant in defence o obs i necessaly Meanwalt organised a further procedural meeting for December 15. It is unlikely therefore that une recuncances can 1 now. Ot implemented by management before the Christmas holiday.

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