second unniversary.
immigrant and forward for winning the strike.
- wanted to win the strike, because of the weapons they chose.
nature of their reformist politics.
it was in were on display forces and Institutions of legality. services could have won the strike came very near to Government.
postal boycott was stopped. deliver the also do some thinking.
strikers a tremendous debt.
price will remain the same.
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NAME ADDRESS Send lo Socialist Challenge, 328/9 Upper St, London Nt: when they called off their Industrial action as it approached its -It was Important because of the issues Involved: first, the century-old battle for the right of workers to organise a trade union; secondly, the contemporary significance of the struggle of importance lay in the battle between conflicting strutegies par There is no doubt that the leadership of the union involved -as did the leadership of the TUC. If trade union leaders cannot deliver on such a basic issue as recognition, then they lose credibility in the eyes of working peOple reason the union leaders could not deliver at Grunwick was enquiries, the courts, and the 'sense of fair play" of the employer. They chose those weapons because a reliance on good sense, "Impartial" courts, and compromise through negotiutions is in she deliberately blunted and sabotaged the alternative weupons which of their polities that ther - the weapons of mass uction involving tens of housands of workers caring little if they were in conflict with the Mass picketing, continued boycotts, cutting off supplies and that is indispetable: they winsing the strike. Victory was dealed because the leadership of APEX and the TUC, urged on by a Laboer became more frightened at the prospect of direct Those who speak of relying on union leaders — left or right — to goods will now need to do some explaining over Grunwick. But it should also he suid that those who believe that these leaders can be someliow ignored or simply vilified should Grunwick was the rank-and-file in uction, It was the rebellion of the runk-and-file. In the end ull the militancy, all the muss action, was not enough to get round the sabotage of the trade union leaders. In short, the bureuncracy is strong and cannot be wished or insulted awas. Thes weed to he taken on politicaily.
But Grunwick did show the immense possibilities of unity in action und for that, as for many other things, we all one the Summer schedules As from next week Socialist Challenge will revert to its summer sebedule. The next five issues will consist of 12 pages, tbough the SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 20 July 1978 Page 2 voted for the Select Committee Report on Inmigration, our was actually drafting the disgusting docu ment: crucial And in response we have observed the reassurances of Merlyn Roes Callahodge population:
Don't be have said. "We've virtually pur i stop to any blacks allowed inte the country. True, chose impurtial there are a few dependants we let in, but we make life bell for them in ose embasales abroad and ar Heathrow. Soon they'll stop applying.
All these promises wards of comfort, are intended for the overwhelming majority of this country's popwanon feeling, as it is, the stresses and strains of an coonomic system Patrick Kodikara leads marchers off after Brick Lane sil-down on Sunday Caplinliem is in cred. The lenders of the Labour Party and the Irades union
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