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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

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Socialist Challenge No. 21, 10 November 1977 · p. 5 of the scan · 310 words

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fire station.

in favour of their justilied claim.

decision really does put lives at risk.

breaking.

up.

Let's look at them.

ARE Im CERTAINLY NOT PUTTING OUT! are the excuses for Tony Benn to endorse scabbing on the power workers. And that's why Merlyn Rees now has thousands of troops ready to go into Britain's What hypocrisy! If Benn really cared about health and lives he would live up to his left wing credentials and settle the power workers dispute immediately -Merlyn Rees knows that the army is incapable of providing an efficient fire service and through his No the real aim is the same in both cases — strike The most enthusiastic supporters of this policy are those who claim to represent the workers involved -the trade union leaders. Rank and file against the bureaucracy. That's how all the present struggles line *Grunwick strikers still battling on despite threats to cut strike pay, no APEX support for pickets and now House.

the union.

whelmingly. on the line in a hunger strike outside Congress *Miners win through against the attempts of Gormley and the Coal Board to split the strength of *Fire fighters only get the chance to follow up their pay claim by voting down their executive over*Power station workers. Deserted by their own unions, scabbed on by the power engineers union in collaboration with power bosses.

If any one of these struggles succeeds it will be the signal for millions of workers to fight against the policies of the Lib-Lab pact and those who push them in the labour movement.

A modest but vitally necessary start can be made in the long process of fighting for an alternative leadership to lead such a struggle in the labour movement at the Rank and Manchester in two weeks time. File Conference in

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