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already announced an overtime ban against the recruitment 'freeze'.

The 64,000 strong NATHE, for example, unanimously passed a resolution last month committing the union to campaign against education cuts in co-operation with other public sector unions. NALGO, at its conference in June, pledged backing for any branch fighting redundancies and supported the idea of a national offensive against Tory budget proposals.

It is quite clear that among a Socialist Action typeset by Rye Express (TU) & printed (TU), 9 Rosemont Rd, NW 3. (Phone 794 6575). wide layer of public sector unions -and in the labour movement as a whole-there is a growing understanding of the need to build a fighting campaign now to defend jobs and the welfare state.

TUC ACTION But will the Labour leaders reflect these feelings and what will they concretely propose to combat the Tory drive? If Jim Callaghan has his way-nothing. Speaking at a Labour Women's conference last month, he issued a stern warning against the unions using any "industrial power' to defend jobs and living standards.

The same weak-kneed response emerged from the TUC. As the Guardian astutely observed last week, while being strong in words, they "stopped short of letting the war wagons roll". While issuing token threats against the Tories, time.

the Tories' proposals rests upon support for those same right-wing policies that lost Labour the election. Workers in the public sector will not exactly be attracted to a campaign which utters only token threats against the Tories in the hope of replacing it with a government which also believes in slashing social services and holding down wages of the low-paid.

THRUST The Labour leaders must not be allowed, however, to get off the hook with uttering toothless threats to the Tories combined with propaganda for the return of a right-wing Labour government later. What they have to be forced into building is a real fighting campaign now to stop the Tories hacktheir main thrust will probably be to hold a few protest actions combined with a campaign to return a Moreover, their opposition to Use to defeat it.