class in the coming struggles will be that of individual groups of worker baving to face the combined strengih of the whole ruling class. This was the recipe for disaster that defeated the gus workers, the hospital workers, the Manchester engineers, the post office workers and many others, In the face of a centralised ruling class attack the working class response must be a centralised one.
The hest form of this would be a generul strike. Ten million workers united together would smash through any wages law and soon put an end to the Tory Government as well. But the TUC has consistently refused to take up this most effective way of dealing with the situation. This does not make it wrong to demand that the TLC cll aæeneral strike, indeed the demand
whole capitalist system -which are the real reasons for the present attacks on the working class. But the policy of the ruling class is at