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Mass resentment

Red Weekly No. 128, 4 December 1975 · p. 3 of the scan · 274 words

The scan: rw-no128-dec-4-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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each major area. Opposition is building up in the unions. sity is to organise these forces into a class struggle opposition to the Wilson-Murray policy and leadership. This means: - Demanding the recall of the TUC to mount the fight for jobs; -Building Right to Work Committees based on the trade unions in every area; -Organising mass solidarity with all struggles against redundancy; - Uniting all the unions opposed to the f6 limit and the Government's jobs policy; -Fighting for the demands-work-sharing with no loss of pay, a 35 hour open the books, nationalisation of all firms creating redundancy;

-Drawing up a common jobs policy in every area and fighting for it through demonstrations, pickets, occupations and strikes.

The aim must be towards mass action-local, area and national strikes- capable of imposing a working class solution to unemployment. These are the tasks of the coming weeks.

Support this move:Following Len Murray's attack on the 26 November march, Eric Heffer and over 60 Labour MPs put forward a resolution in the House of Commons criticising this outburst. The Tribunite MPs who supported this motion have no solution to the crisis of unemployment-their demand for the implementation of the Labour Manifesto provides no answer and their demand for import controls is downright reactionary -but their attack on Murray is completely correct. Red Weekly urges all its supporters to move resolutions supporting this attack on Murray's and the TUC's sabotage.

What is needed now is clear. Mass resentment against the Government's policy is mounting. On the demonstration hundreds of militants came from The vital necesweek, a ban on overtime, an emergency programme of public works,

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