wages nationalisation frayed by socialist government. health service used to be envied by workers all over the world.
Where are we now?
Wyn Revan: The blame is 250 craft squareiy on the shoulders of this Labour Government. The Purliumentury Select Commit'Cos only allowed 4 sheets to wipe mu bum and that has taton effect already ! on Merseyside, Speke, Lucas, Kirkby, and more smeinployinent likely combine commettoes.
MP for exhausted the At a special emergenc meeting called by Liver- Minsters lo pool Trades Council on Wednesday 23 March, Perseysoe over 100 delegate shop stewards discussed the disastrous situation fac- Communist ing the labour movement reports JACK BEAUMONT.
The threar of closures and redundancy now affects abou 10 factories including leyland Merseyside Bird's Eye Courtaulds, GEC Massey Ferguson, had given a Cammell Lairds, Tate and Lyk The meeting was neld to prepare for the conference on called by the Trades Council for Sunday 9 April which could become the biggest and most important yer organised locally, with the participation heen Leyland and Lucas Acrospace Eddie Loyden, left Labour Garston where the plant.
Leyland Speke plant is located arrived late from the House of Commons. He reported he had parbiamentary process by getring a meeting with Callaghan and other Task lor fundi, for a Minister agreements for British Leylan and Lucas in Liverpool.
Roger O'Hara, Merseyside LISLTLEE secretary called for left action militant Merseyside' creared by the media. He appealed to the liberal Liverpool Echo for an alliance with small business to bring investment back Two hundred women workers at the SD Centre, Knowsley, clear lead by occupying their plant againsi closure, it was reported hy their steward to the meeting Dave Thomas, of Leyland recounted a growing mood of resistance to closure there with a inass meeting. called for Saturday 8 April.
Salements of support had received from Canley: Castle Bromwich and Swindon, where TR7 production was to he transferred from the Speke The discontinuation of the TR7 will affect mine Leyland plants in all, and Thomas called For a resistance to all closures The Speke stewards in the No. 2 piant, have now set up an action committee in the plant to fight the clasures, Calls for action at the conference will range •froth more lobbying and demonstrations - including a May Day - and a right to work march to London. Other solutions included bringing down the Labour Government or re-clecting it with socialist policies The Liverpool Trader Coun cil conference .on Sunday 9 Parising agi ether -fighting against further redundancies: for worksharing without lost of alternative tion, based not on profitability but social need, for Covertment finance under workers contrel: lor occupations. of factories against all closures and for democratie work-place based action committees in factories and areas to hight for this programme Liverpool STANC Connel Conference Agrinst Uneni ployment, Sunday, 9 April, Everyman Theatre, Hopi Street, Liverpool. Credentiais from Liverpool Trades Coun Victoria Street.
Liverpool 1.
*Let our movement THE Japanese Government's plans to open the new Tokyo international airport at Narita week were smashed along with the main control tower.
10,000 local farmers and their supporters clashed with riot police. One group of demonstrators drove truck through police lines into the control lower comdenli a olon to the anti-airport novenent by having the police by the farmers to obstruct the SUTC TUIWE The farmers declared They aS OWE WURCHO! lears', and with the help o TUCHT and labour unions buildings. The more sophisti started LWU cated was a four-storey con crete building supporting a steel tome bam, 6 February, the riot police attacked the buildings' delenders with water cannon the tower to destroy radar and radio equipment. this light control systems and other aircraft guidance equipment.
A correspondent from Japan reports on recent developments in the 12 year fight to save peasant land and the environment from the Government's clutches.
Las Mag the Government | and other equipmeor. SITUEH BUEL-UC continued until 8 February, REBUILT When the police did finally SULLEE I TUTORIE LEC LORCI they were unable to destroy porting it and, by the end of been reconstructed as a three SLUICY ATLEE tower can he necessary: The second building had also heen rebuilt.
DUSE CITIC ound, letting others into went into action again on 1 larch, the first day Japan National Railways tried to | transport jet fuel. Police were lined all along the 70 kilometre toute from Kashima port to the дегрогі. ocal railway.
OCHTEL E THI OHL SUIKE CILI march and boycott ofall irains carrying jet fuel.
DUST thousand students and farmers gabered in tbe railway yards that The Thousands rallied Narita afternoon despite a ferociouswind and dust storm.
Issaku Tomura, chairperson of the Farmers' Opposition League, said: "This what the farmers call a "red wind" (because of the dust). Let our movement be a red wind too had knock the Government right OFf riot whích feet.' ilded wher No fuel was moved that day, and on 2 March only one train carried fuel. They had planned police to move seven trains a day.
TUE LIS workers at Dam ago maoIs engineers nals.
month-long in the struggle.
workers, because they JUULS in the CIC ENIG students" mavements, wind is SECOND to light the a wind that'!
and The 20 farmers who still their CEnE construction area.
be internalonal Irid only has one runway.
Further opposition to tbe colbe trom the prescot airport Hagele-Anders olne workers organised a union in December to oppose the move to Narita. Many of them stand to lose their jobs if Haneda closes its international termiThe Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Japanese section of the Fourth Interna tional) is playing a lcading role ultra-lelt groups concertale aunos cactuspc oo isolated 'guerilla' actions. Ibey are unable to organise a mass protest movement, partly insist n using "uchigeba" Guternal violence) as the way of setting political differences with other tendenWOEKCES ITTE The JRCI explains the need "second stage Ce 20 Farmers sho sill hotd second stage Without Ihe second stare il able to take
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be a red wind' Tok yo airport struggle