Workers at the ILC site during their recent strike: Jim Kamp is on far right.
BUILDING WORKERS: WHY WE Jim Kemp, T&GWU convenor of the ILC Bedford Row balding site and a member of the International Marxist Photo: Ezra Nathan (Red Weekly) They are weupons against the trade union movement: to make rank-and-file workers think twice about striking and to force the bureaucrats to crack-down on militants. It is well worth the price of a few one-day strikes if they can pull this off.
Limited protest actions are only useful as a means of beginning a powerful mass campaign that can lead up to an all-out struggle to smash the NIRC and the Industrial. Relations Act.
Already many workers have expressed a desire to go beyond a simple protest strike. Some districts of AUEW have declared extended over time bans. Many have called on the AUEN Executive to organise an all-out stoppage. Some 40 factorics nearhy Con-Mech have stated that they will begin an all-out solidarity strike on the 5th unless the dispute in settled.
An example which should be taken up immediately by militants everywhere is the decision of the Erich District Committee to convene a mass meeting of all AUEW members in the District on 8 November to discuss further moves in the fight against the NIRC. Spocial shop stew ards" meetings should be organised in every district to plan future action. A campaigo must he mounted within the ALEW calling on the executive to organise a national strike against the NIRC ruling. A massive propaganda canpaign must be organised to make worker aware of the impor tance of the Con-Mech dispute and the threat posed by the NIRC decision. Further pledges of support such as those made by the NUM Yorkshire Area Committee and the Huddersfield Trades Council should FUND DRIVE When the Generals throw brought an end not just to a political episode in Chile, but to an spoch in the internationel class struggle. From now on all those who ask the workers and oppressed peoples to confront capitalism and imperialism with ampty hands will have to anewer the question: 'But what about Chile?
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