and the brutal dictatorships they sustain in Latin America, and Asia.
In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdrawal British troops from Ireland and letring the Irish people determine their own future.
The Communist parties in Europe are in crisis. the 'Eurocommunist" wings have any meaningful strategy for overthrow of the capitalist state. de revolutionary socialist parties are inore necessary TART helore. Conditions today more nobe an over preceding three decades. But such parties сал only be rejecting sectarianism and seeing internal democracy not as a luvury the right to organise factions and tendencies.
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Socialist Challenge 18 October 1979 Page 2
CRAFTSMAN
Neither Michie stands in Singer Street, Clydebank.
the Singer railway station and the Singer Cafe.
And he away from the huge Singer ever are plant.
of the road for both them. after 23 years for by Charlie and 97 years for the factory.
This means Lily, and his David.
four worked at the sewing in machine plant - Charlieas La sheet metal worker, Lily as a clearer and the boys as operator labourers.
was paid off. Now Charlie, more 47, and his sons face the industrial scrapheap. the Michies, Avenue, numb with shock.
Charlie said fully: Clydebank and Glasgow families have worked at Singers.
"When
1956; it was looked on as a Charlie | job for life. whole families Just up the road from might get work away from looks sadly within travelling distance of Civdehank prospects for my sons are Forit seeins like the end nil.
of And for Charlie's wife, 20-year-old Charles anc This time last year, all Then, this April, Lily And likethetown itself, of Dickens.
Clydebank, sorrow'Generations of I walked in in There were 60, ot. Abbeylands Road, Clydebank, working Singers 32 years — 31 as a I'm a craftsman and shop sicward He said: - there's nothing worst of :They have left Clydebank But the people numh apathetic.' has been at 'This is the series body-blows. SOME of the local firms closed since 1974 are:
John Brown Engineering — 1000 redundancies; Goodyear Tyres Weir Pumps Beatties' Sun Ventilators Equisite Form Stone Manganese Duncan Low Manlove Tullis Brockhouse - 100: Colin Hunter - 70 - Total 3.720.
There have 4.000 jobs lost at Singers since 1974, and Marathon.
John Brown Engineering and the Marathon rig vard stand almost alone.
The company founded 128 years ago by the man who invented the world's first effective sewing machine, Isaac Merrit Singer.
- 700;
- 600; Biscuits - 600;
- 200; 150; 100; 100; 100;
also been 1000 at was cheap and
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Closed since 1974