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CENTRALISE THE FIGHT-BACK

Red Weekly No. 195, 21 April 1977 · p. 3 of the scan · 540 words

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in May where YS members could discuss how to continue Their suppor to me nestrow workers. workers have given fight to that of other sectors of the working class see the way things are moving.

return to tree collective bargaining"

He is not the only one Contract Joe Gormles conference.

the present policy massive reduction in Grimsby defeate with Sadly, the organisers Trace Unions and the Leyland stewards, anternative io is cisestops ponyprospects for 20 April.

policies are there.

begun by those workers taking 2 and 3 -Not just industria militants.

chance is there. It can be taken. SOLIDARITY has been the keynote of the struggles of recent weeks: the Leyland toolroom workers have offered their support to the Hounslow Hoso tel work-in: Port Talbot enolnears nava tried to link up with all the other sectors taking action: the Heathrow day shift has come out against the lock-out of the night shift; the transport workers have met the airport bosses threat of lay-offs with an all-out strike warning and, most recertly, the Ford workers are talking about linking their Still the TUC leaders are lalking with the Government over Phase 3 of the pay pollcy. But even Jack Jones can in preparation for his intervention at the Scottish TUC this week he has choser to resurrect his left face and the chatter about an orderly The rail unions look set to come out against pay restraint, At the NUR conference not a on pay supporis the present socia says that a third round of pay policy does not stand 'a cal in hell's chance at the miners But this growing verbal 'opposition' to pay restraint has nothing to do with the fight which is going on now against If is the Social Contract - the direct cause of the present struggles — which is responsible for the plight of The Liberal-Labour pact its continuation. Electoral •WES defeat at Stechford may well be followed by anothe and Ashfield. The local government elections in May will show widespread Labour gains not just for the Tories, but for the of the 20 April lobby of Parliament, the Liaison Committee for the Defence of offer no clear Derek Robinson, Leyland convenor and Communist Party member, said last week that the toolroom workers' strike had damaged the This madness is the precise opposite of the truth. The damage is done by those who cannot see the possibilities of building an alternative to the Goverment's policies on the basis of the struggles going on at the moment. Th chances for a united opposition fighting for class strugg The crucial task of uniting different groupe of workers against the Contract has already been Furher national Initiatives — strike action against Phases can carry on the job by extending that unity. workers should be involved in this Organising LCDTU conferences in the locality, like tha neid in Durham last weekend, can draw in a wide layer of Jack Jones tells us that the Social Contract and wages policy are not the same thing. But all workers have been affected — through cuts and unemployment as well as loss of pay. This Dives the opportunity for an opposition which fights for socialis: answers to these attacks. The

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