LOBBY TUC, HA.M. 7 SEPTEMBER
TRADES
CONGRESS IS JUST A FEW DAYS AWAY. It will be a smug affair. Murray will congratulate Jones. Jones will congratulate Scanion. And everybody congratulate After worthies unity of the trade union movement-self-congratulation.
The trade union leaders have got a lot to be proud of. Strikes are the lowest for 25 years at a time when unemployment is the highest.
1½ million are That's on the official statistics. Hundreds of thousands more leavers.
But the banner of the social contract is Wages are falling nicely and the union improve the social services by approving of backs.
WELL, NOW'S THE TIME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. On 7 September the Right to Work March from London to Brighton will be arriving at the Conference. several hundred young people who have already signed up for the march will be joined by a trainload of lobbiers London coaches from many other parts of the country. The lobby will express the angel and disgust unemployed sell-outs of the bureaucrats to the Callaghan Government.
THEY WILL DEMAND to know why the bureaucrats their backsides will everybody else. all, that's what these understand as This week the announced that unemployed.
don't even still held high leaders are helping to Healey's cutmotions supporting a 35-hour week without loss of pay-and have not supported struggle for TUC could nating mass unemployment.
THEY WILL and know why the TUC increases in public and the defence of the socia -and workers and student teachers to fight desperate isolated rearguard actions in support of the health THEY WILL know resolutions on women's rights sit and does nothing to passing the right of women to work.
THEY La single ACTION this demand tha start the job of elimi- ERS' There DEMAND calls for spending National ployment be on 7 leaves hospital building service and education.
DEMAND to fight
passes support gress WILL DEMAND END TO TALKING AND SOME FOR JOBS SO-CALLED *LEADanother question that should be asked as well: where will the organisers of the Assembly on UnemSeptember?
Back in March the No.8 Region of the Confederation of Shipand Engineering brought together over 3,000 delegates to discuss the against Unemo men Lobbies of the Special TUC or to June and me annual con were called for. But the SEU banner was nowhere to be seen on 16 June, and so far not so much as a call has come from it for a lobby of the TUC Militants should be demanding that the Assembly is recalled -and action organised agains! the mass unemployment which its left' MPs and trade union sponsors were so willing to denounce.
The Right to Work March leaves the Embankment, Charing Cross, at 11am on Saturday 4 September. The special train from London to Brighton on 7 September-return CUCKETS -leaves Victoria at 9.30am JOIN THE MARCH AND BE AT THE LOBBY. marks of the Communist Party.
Callaghan and Healey, this thinly can only organising a united fight back to Work March and lobby. A late decision by the North London division of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers to lobby the TUC the day after the Right to Work lobby cuts across the opportunity to build a strong united lobby. Since virtually no bodies of the labour movement will be meeting between the call and the lobby the motives behind the call must be somewhat suspect-after all, the date of the Right to Work lobby has been known for months. In fact the decision bears all the hall At a time when the so-called lefts of the TUC and Labour Party are clinging to the coat-tails of veiled sec damage the chances of against unThe International Marxist Group will be intervening in this lobby to explain the need for a united fight back and the recall of the National Assembly on Unemployment, while giving major organisational support to the Right
2 Racism Red Weekly 26 August 1976
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bother to register. Of the 1½ million, 150,000 will be school
DEFEND SHRESSANY THE RIGH WORK
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